Ex-Fire Chief Files $10 Million Wrongful Termination Lawsuit

Former Flint, Michigan, Fire Chief Raymond Barton filed a federal $10 million lawsuit against the city and its mayor alleging that he was terminated because he refused to help cover up a house fire that killed two young brothers. 

Barton said in a lawsuit filed Monday in U.S. District Court that Mayor Sheldon Neeley tried to pressure him to cover up the alleged misconduct of then-firefighters Daniel Sniegocki and Michael Zlotek, who claimed that they had “thoroughly” searched a Pulaski Street home on May 28 after a fire broke out on the first floor.

Sniegocki and Zlotek said they found no one in the burning home and gave the “all clear” to other firefighters on the scene, the lawsuit says. A second group of firefighters later entered the home and found Lamar Mitchell, 9, and Zyaire Mitchell, 12, his brother, in a second-floor bedroom.

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