Disgraced firefighter’s small claim dismissed
Federal inmate Daniel Andrew Murphy, 40, tried to sue City of Fredericton for firing him from fire department in 2022, claiming it didn’t accommodate his mental-health, addiction issues
A former Fredericton firefighter serving a federal prison term for a series of serious crimes in 2022 has lost his bid to sue city hall for $20,000 for firing him.
Daniel Andrew Murphy, 40, formerly of Trailside Lane in Fredericton, and his father, Daniel P. Murphy, filed three small-claims actions in Fredericton court last year against the “city administrator” for the City of Fredericton, fire Chief Dwayne Killlingbeck and Barry Durling, president of the the International Association of Fire Fighters Local 1053, over the younger man’s loss of his employment as a Fredericton firefighter in 2022.
Murphy was sentenced in 2023 to seven years in prison, less credit time he spent on remand, for a series of bizarre and violent crimes in late 2022 that followed in the weeks after he was fired from the Fredericton Fire Department. He’s currently incarcerated at the Springhill Institution in Nova Scotia.