Harry Stoller & Co. v. City of Lowell

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• holding that city's decision whether to allocate funds to hire firefighters was an immune planning decision
• observing that the size of a fire department involves “policy considerations, especially the allocation of financial resources”
• declining to follow Cady v. Plymouth-Carver Regional School Dist., 17 Mass.App.Ct. 211 (1983)
• examining discretionary function in the context of the analogous Massachusetts Tort Claims Act
• no immunity where fire fighters chose not to use buildings’ sprinkler systems to fight fire and negligently failed to conform to generally accepted firefighting practices
• no policy determination in firefighters’ discretion to use sprinkler systems in addition to hoses

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).