Employee Fired Over Rosenbaum Case

DC’s new fire chief, Dennis Rubin, on the job for 2 weeks, is wasting no time establishing his intent to take command of the department and sweep aside long-standing presumptions about how it is run.

In a dramatic announcement Monday morning, Rubin announced he is discarding the recommendations of an internal adjudication examining the conduct of 5 firefighters-emergency medical technicians and is firing 1 of them and suspending another.

“The decision that was rendered by the trial board provided a punishment that was simply too lenient,” Rubin told reporters.

“My