Two Salem Fire-EMS employees have been placed on administrative leave while the department investigates an off-duty incident in which a mother says her son was called a racial slur by two men driving a truck with Salem firefighter license plates on Interstate 81.
Nanette Ugalde and her son, Lorenzo Dean, said they were driving north on I-81 when the men in the truck drove by and directed a racial slur at Dean.
Ugalde recorded part of the encounter on her dash camera…