Fire company in Delaware County suspended after racist remarks caught on video call

Fire company in Delaware County suspended after racist remarks caught on video call

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GLENOLDEN, Pennsylvania (WPVI) -- Briarcliffe Fire Company Station 75 is silent. No firetrucks and no firefighters are moving inside or outside. It comes after the fire company was temporarily shut down following allegations of racist remarks by firefighters who thought their video call conversation was private. The original call was to discuss the consolidation of services between the Briarcliffe, Goodwill, and Darby Township fire companies. When county and state officials got off the call, members of the Briarcliffe Fire Company allegedly stayed on and engaged in a discussion that included racial slurs and disparaging remarks about African Americans in the area. "A bunch of ********** n--- down there," one man can be heard saying while discussing the all-Black Darby Township Fire Company. There were also comments about Darby's chief. "He's just a piece of s___," one person said. Another comment called the African American chief by a racial slur as the person speaking recalled a time when the chief was in one of Briarcliffe's vehicles to the ire of the firefighter. "F___ S___ and he's looking in the truck," said the man on the call. The firefighters who made the alleged comments didn't know other firefighters were on the line from the Goodwill Fire Company. One of them was Deputy Chief Tim Eichelman.

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Eichelman and his fellow firefighters knew he had to bring the comments to light. That included sharing comments on the call that made fun of Fanta Bility. She is the 8-year-old girl killed by police gunfire. "Fanta soda, yeah, orange or Fanta grape," one man said on the call while chuckling, even after being told that the girl was shot to death by police.

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