Ordered that the judgment is reversed, on the law, with costs, the petition is denied, the determination is confirmed, and the proceeding is dismissed on the merits.
The petitioner, who was a member of the East Rockaway Fire Department, engaged in a willful course of conduct in which he lied to his supervisor, fabricated documents in order to cover up his misconduct, and failed to follow a departmental policy of which he was well informed. Under the circumstances presented here, we cannot conclude that the penalty of termination of the petitioner's membership in the East Rockaway Fire Department "`is so disproportionate to the offense as to be shocking to one's sense of fairness,' thus constituting an abuse of discretion as a matter of law" ( Matter of Kreisler v New York City Tr. Auth., 2 NY3d 775, 776, quoting Matter of Pell v Board of Educ. of Union Free School Dist. No. 1 of Towns of Scarsdale Mamaroneck, Westchester County, 34 NY2d 222, 237; see Matter of Torrance v Stout, 9 NY3d 1022, 1023; Matter of Rutkunas v Stout, 8 NY3d 897, 899; Matter of Thomas v County of Rockland, Dept. of Hosps., 55 AD3d 745, 746).
Accordingly, the petition should have been denied, and the proceeding should have been dismissed on the merits.