Firefighter sustained "catastrophic injury" to shoulder when freeing tangled hose line from obstruction, during required training exercise which involved a live fire. Firefighter's belief that he was responding to an emergency during exercise was reasonable and falls within purview of Public Safety Employee Benefits Act. Other firefighter sustained knee injury while participating in required training exercise without live fire, when co-worker tried to free him from obstacle. That training exercise involved no unforeseen developments and did not involve imminent danger, and thus that firefighter's injury did not occur while responding to emergency. (FREEMAN, BURKE, and THEIS, concurring; GARMAN, THOMAS, and KARMEIER, concurring in part and dissenting in part.)
Illinois Supreme Court
Civil Court
Public Safety Employee Benefits Act