A veteran Washington state firefighter who helped respond to some of America’s first COVID-19 patients says he lost the career he loved after refusing to violate his religious beliefs to comply with a vaccine mandate, and is now fighting to have his day in court.
Scott Carlson, a former lieutenant with the Redmond Fire Department, told Fox News Digital in an exclusive interview that he and his colleagues spent 18 months on the front lines of the pandemic without a single case of cross-contamination before the city’s vaccine requirements upended his career.
“We worked 18 months with zero cross-contaminations,” Carlson said. “We did our job very well. And then the governor came out and said that they wanted us to get the COVID vaccine mandate.”…