Testifying before the committee, Kelly Martin, now chief of Fire and Aviation Management at Yosemite, cataloged multiple incidents of alleged gender bias, including sexual harassment, that she encountered in her 32 years of federal service.
Then the hard-working head of the election committee of Nuristan was fired two weeks before polling day because some powerful candidates complained about him to the Election Commission.
"When the investigation is over, this issue will radiate out to other buildings that have fireproofing in them," said Glenn P. Corbett, a member of the investigation's advisory committee and an assistant professor of fire science at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice.
Batjer and Ellenbogen will replace Dr. Ira Casson and Dr. David Viano, who resigned as co-chairmen of the committee under fire last fall.
Antonio Bazo, the president of the workers' committee of Lipasam, condemned the fires as criminal acts of delinquency and denied that employees of his company were responsible for any of them.
This was an amplification of a Tenet proposal to create a cease-fire committee of Israeli and Palestinian security officials, under the leadership of an American, believed to be the C.I.A. station chief here.
Earlier this year, Commissioner Scoppetta announced the creation of an interdepartmental committee of high-ranking police and fire officials.
A government review of the appointment faulted Mr. Herdman for failing to warn the S.E.C. commissioners that Mr. Webster had served on the audit committee of an Internet company that fired its auditors after they raised questions about the company's accounting controls.The controversy also led to the resignation of Harvey Pitt, the previous S.E.C. chairman.
The Committee was formed by C. Suydan Cutting, & has already received over 1300 gifts of fire arms & binoculars, as well as 91,092 rounds of assorted ammunition.
All major parties made human control of fire central to their campaigns, and voters overwhelmingly preferred the Liberals' plan to put the question to a committee.
