HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WAFF) – Eighty Huntsville firefighters say equipment meant to keep them safe failed them, and the city did not do enough to help after they raised concerns.
David Harer, president of the Professional Firefighters of Alabama and a 23-year captain with Huntsville Fire and Rescue, is representing dozens of his colleagues in the dispute with the department he has served for two decades.
“It’s close to a simulation as you can get to a fire,” Harer said of the incentivized test given to all Huntsville firefighters twice a year, which includes seven events in full turnouts with air packs…