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Cash-Strapped Aurora Paid Thousands To Send Firefighters To Fitness Competition During COVID Pandemic
The city also paid overtime costs for other firefighters to fill in for the absent firefighters.
By Brian Maass, CBS Denver
December 15, 2020
AURORA, Colo. (CBS4)– The City of Aurora, which is facing a COVID-induced $33 million budget shortfall for 2021, managed to pay the salaries for four Aurora Fire Rescue firefighters to travel to Texas in late October to compete in the “Firefighter Combat Challenge World Championship.” The trip happened even though the city has discouraged such travel during the pandemic. The city also paid overtime costs for other firefighters to fill in for the absent firefighters, according to a CBS4 Investigation.
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Aurora Fire Rescue, which approved the paid training leave, refused to be interviewed on camera by CBS4.
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