In re the Appeal by the East Bank Consolidated Special Service Fire Protection District

WICKER, Judge.

This is an appeal from a decision of the Jefferson Parish Fire Civil Service Board reversing the Superintendent of Fire’s dismissal of Anthony Sambola, a firefighter.

Anthony Sambola has been a firefighter with the East Bank consolidated Special Fire Protection District of Jefferson Parish since 1986. In February 1991 Sambola began using sick leave for a non-job related illness. Sambola exhausted all of his sick and annual leave. On March 27, 1991, Sambola requested that he be placed on extended leave of absence without pay pursuant to Personnel Rule X, Section 7, Subsection 7.1…