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Magistrate recommends state vacate suspension of Lexington firefighters’ licenses

By Brock Parker

 |  Globe Corresondent  

  December 21, 2011

A state Administrative Law magistrate has recommended the Massachusetts Department of Public Health vacate a license suspension for four Lexington firefighters named in a scandal last year involving more than 200 emergency medical technicians statewide. The recommended decision issued by the state Division of Administrative Law Appeals on Dec. 6 comes more than a year after the firefighters filed an ongoing suit in federal court against the state Department of Public Health and its office of emergency medical services in an effort to clear their names.

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