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HOUSTON — Houston city officials defended the dismissal of three firefighters over a racial slur that turned up in the electronic report of a routine ambulance call.
Acting Fire Chief Rick Flanagan fired the trio after the offending term was found during an audit of this year’s emergency medical service responses.
The firefighters union called the terminations unwarranted and contended the audit could not determine who had actually entered the slur on an ambulance computer terminal, the Houston Chronicle said Thursday.
City Attorney Dave Feldman told the newspaper the investigation was thorough and “certainly showed that each of these individuals was culpable.”
None of the three firefighters, who were attached to Station 55 in south Houston, made any immediate comment on the matter to the newspaper.
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