9/11 FDNY firefighter with full pension becomes asst. chief of LI fire dept.
By PHILIP MESSING
Last Updated: 5:44 AM, June 4, 2012
EXCLUSIVE
A 9/11 FDNY firefighter who retired with a $107,000 tax-free disability pension has just taken a post as an assistant chief at a Long Island fire department.
Although Philip Scarfi, 50, was labeled “disabled” when he retired three years ago — possibly because of posttraumatic stress — he is now expected to lead crews of volunteer firefighters into burning buildings with the Deer Park Volunteer Fire Department in Suffolk County, sources told The Post.
“If he was sitting back and going fishing every day, that would be a horse of a different color,” one source fumed.
“But he’s now doing the very same thing for which he got a disability pension from the FDNY.”
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If he had retired without the disability, his regular service pension would have entitled him to about $71,500 yearly plus an annual $12,000 supplement — both of which would be taxable.
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