Tue Oct 12, 2021 – 11:46 am EDT
LOS ANGELES (LifeSiteNews) — Just weeks after forming a coalition and retaining legal counsel, 871 Los Angeles firefighters, representing roughly 25% of the total personnel on the department, have filed a notice of intent to sue California’s most populous city for its COVID-19 vaccine mandate, the Epoch Times reported Saturday.
The notice of intent names the Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD), as well as Fire Chief Ralph Terrazas and Battalion Chiefs Jamie Lesinski, Nick Ferrari, and Vince Alvarado as having caused “injury, damage, or loss” by setting a hard deadline of October 20 by which all city firefighters must get vaccinated or else risk losing their jobs.
The mandate handed down by the LAFD follows a city-wide mandate forcing some 60,000 public employees to get inoculated against the coronavirus by an original deadline of October 5.
Attorney Kevin McBride, who is representing the firefighters, told KTLA the mandate is “uncalled for. It’s wrong, and we will be in court in ten days.”
The firefighters have claimed $2 million each in damages which, if awarded, would amount to a total of $1.7 billion in payouts, KTLA reported.
“The claims
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