Washington – Until Saturday, the Patrick Monteg examined the fire fighter deadly for the federal government.
A 46-year-old Kentki native, rare combination of monteg skills and expertise-conscience-training, technical information, and fighting 26-year-old fire-he has a small firefightening of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health Small Fire Fighter Investigation and for the National Made a good fit for the institute and prevention program. In about two years on the job, he said, the observers had repeatedly appreciated him for his work.
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But it is not that the Trump administration said that when he suddenly fired him – along with thousands of other health and human service staff employees – Saturday night. In a form letter, the Monteg was told to both that he was unsafe for the termination as he had not yet completed a two -year probationary term and because “your performance is not enough to justify further employment.” “
Three of the five people in his program, which was made by the Congress to reduce the risk of firefighters dying in the line of duty, was allowed to go in the same way.
Billon Musk, advisory billionaire of a temporary White House, who works through the government’s efficiency department, has chased President Donald Trump’s promise to “dry the swamp” in Washington, which by killing federal programs and by thousands of people By firing. But the Monteg, which lives in the Louisville Metropolitan region, is rarely transformed into a “deep state” bureaucrat when Trump’s agenda is rarely disappointed with the country’s capital.
“I am not confident that the United States President or Bobby Kennedy also knows that we are present,” he has Robert F., Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services. Kennedy Junior said, “Most people will agree a lot that there is a ruin that can be trimmed, but I think there are better ways to do it than people behind people” Focus on.
The Department of Health and Human Services did not respond to a list of questions presented by NBC News, including whether Kennedy believes that Fire Fighter is a low priority for security taxpayers and whether the risk for firefighters is sufficient forms They are less than that they no longer need that much study.
For some agencies and units within the federal government and agencies in the country, it may be impossible to complete their mission by rejecting a large part of the task force.
Louis Lago, a former head of the Baltimore Fire Department Battalion, who worked in the same malignant-unit in the form of Monteg, said he is afraid of his children and other firefighters.
“My concern is that the program is going to dissolve, and I have two sons in the job,” Lago said, who worked in the unit from Martal Beach, SC, I think it is very big for safety and welfare There is benefit. Fire service. ,
He said that when he led the dive operation, the scene comes from the experience of using the agency reports. During a recovery mission, a security divers was unable to detect a stranded diver. But another security divers found the trapped driver and saved it. He said that using two security divers instead of one was a method that Lago learned from FFFIPP reports.
Now, only two of the five investigators are still functioning, they and other programs are familiar with that it cannot survive.
“If they eliminate enough people, they will not be able to work,” said the American Federation of Government Employees Local 3840 chief steward Micah Neemier-Walls in Cincinnati. “They are taking a hacket just for things. They are not paying attention to who is being affected.”
The ambush program was not the only fire fighter-focused affected by the trimmed within NIOSH in the last week. According to union officials, the federal activists who maintain the National Fire Fighter Registry for Cancer, which voluntarily provide information to track cancer deaths and deal with cancer, were also allowed to go.
The registry was made by a remedy which was signed by Trump in the law in July 2018. It unanimously passed both the Congress chambers. In the last summer, at the Republican National Convention, Trump led a moment of silence to the Corey Complete, a fire fighter, who was killed during a failed attempt on Trump’s life. Trump brought the Complete Jacket to his inaugural rally in January, and he often spoke in praise of the first respondents.
The inconvenience between the praise of Trump of the firefighters is for the reason that the firing has left fire-protection advocates, workers and employee unions to scratch their heads.
“I certainly thought that some decisions would have a factor that was done,” Lago said. He said the termination notice received from the government – who accused him of failing to do an adequate work – even if it was a hindrance with his own stellar performance reviews, he said. NBC News did not see his review or Monteg.
“I could not understand that they could lie in an official document about a demonstration issue,” he said.
