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Union calls for D.C. fire and EMS chief to step down

By WTOP News (Washington, D.C.)

WASHINGTON — The president of the union representing emergency medical services workers is calling on D.C. Fire and EMS chief Adrian Thompson to step down, charging there’s been a failure to address problems with the emergency treatment of New York Times reporter David Rosenbaum.

Rosenbaum was found lying in front of a Northwest home. He had been attacked and died two days later.

On WTOP’s The Politics Program with Mark Plotkin, Kenneth Lyons, president of the American Federation of Government Employees Local 3721, says Thompson is trying to avoid dealing with the issue.

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