The city of Delray Beach, Florida, has fired firefighter Brandon Hagans for reporting an elderly man was dead when he actually wasn’t<\/a> and then lying about his actions. A report found Hagans looked at the man’s body for six seconds from a doorway during a routine call before calling the scene in as a death. Workers who came to the home over an hour later to remove the body found the man was still alive. The local firefighter’s union is fighting the dismissal, calling it unjust.<\/p>\n

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