On a Sunday morning in January 2022, Freddy Escobar, the longtime president of the firefighters’ union representing the Los Angeles Fire Department, clocked in for a 24-hour shift. The next night, he reported for a 14-hour overnight. Then he did it again the night after that. Escobar isn’t just any firefighter. He’s one of ten United Firefighters of Los Angeles City (UFLAC) union board members allowed to take full-time leave from their city jobs while still collecting their LAFD salaries, in a practice known as “union release time.” But an investigation conducted by the Los Angeles Times has revealed that union…..