Cronholm v. Board of Trustees of the Lockport Fire Protection District Firefighters’ Pension Fund

A civil employee, no longer sworn as a firefighter and no longer tasked with on-scene fire suppression duties, does not qualify as a "firefighter" under the Pension Code. As Plaintiff, who retired as fire chief, could no longer participate in work of controlling and extinguishing fires at location of any such fires, he no longer qualified as a firefighter for purposes of Pension Code, and he did not reenter active service within meaning of Section 117 of Pension Code.(WRIGHT, concurring; SCHMIDT, dissenting.)