LAFD Terminated Firefighter For Refusing Covid Vaccine Just Months Before Deadly Wildfires

When Los Angeles Firefighter Edward Brockschmidt returned to duty, he thought his troubles with the city and the fire department were over.

The Los Angeles Fire Department placed Brockschmidt on unpaid leave for refusing the Covid vaccine in 2021, he told The Federalist. Officials kept him on unpaid leave for more than two years. Then after providing a religious exemption and returning him to duty, they fired him in August 2024 for not complying with the vaccine mandate — which was no longer in effect.

“Proper procedures were not followed because their goal was to get as many people vaccinated as possible,”  Brockschmidt told The Federalist. “There’s a few of us that dug our heels in the ground and said, ‘You can’t do this to

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