Is CalFire’s crackdown going too far?
By Adam Ashton, Sacramento Bee
Firefighters can’t say they weren’t warned.
A new professional standards program at CalFire is giving the department a mechanism to hand down discipline in a consistent manner across the state for the first time in its history.
It’s racking up pay reductions, suspensions and dismissals at a rate that rivals scandal-plagued 2014 – the year when an instructor at its fire academy murdered his mistress and brought intense scrutiny on the department.