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Oklahoma Chief Dismissed
(AP) TULSA, Okla.
Broken Arrow's interim city manager has fired the town's fire chief.
City Manager Dave Wooden ruled on Friday that Fire Chief Jackie Carner had violated city policies and been insubordinate.
Carner had been placed on administrative leave on May 29 and had a predetermination hearing on Wednesday. He had joined the Broken Arrow Fire Department in July 2008 and was a probationary employee.
Deputy Chief Steve Jarrett will be the interim fire chief in the town of about 75,000 people located in Tulsa and Wagoner counties.
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Broken Arrow's interim city manager has fired the town's fire chief.
City Manager Dave Wooden ruled on Friday that Fire Chief Jackie Carner had violated city policies and been insubordinate.
Carner had been placed on administrative leave on May 29 and had a predetermination hearing on Wednesday. He had joined the Broken Arrow Fire Department in July 2008 and was a probationary employee.
Deputy Chief Steve Jarrett will be the interim fire chief in the town of about 75,000 people located in Tulsa and Wagoner counties.
Copyright 2009 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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Permalink Reply by Chad Furr on
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damn talking about going from bottom of pecking order to top and then back down again in a short span of time.
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Permalink Reply by Paul Everson on
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What did he do that was considered insubordinate?
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Permalink Reply by Mike Schlags (Captain Busy) Retd on
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Fired Broken Arrow Fire Chief Jackie Carner
BROKEN ARROW — Ending nearly a month of speculation about the fire chief’s future, the city fired Jackie Carner on Friday. Carner had been on administrative leave with pay since May 29 for undisclosed violations of city policy.
The decision to terminate the fire chief’s employment, effective immediately, was announced late Friday afternoon. Officials would not elaborate on the alleged violations, although they said for the first time that insubordination was among the reasons for Carner’s firing. City officials offered no further comment, calling it a personnel matter. Carner did not return calls Friday.
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Permalink Reply by DUST on
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Found this on a Tulsa news site...
"One person close to the situation told the Ledger the latest flap centered around the chief’s disagreement with a plan to close one fire station and take several ambulances out of service."
Hmmm, how insubordinate of him.
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Permalink Reply by Truckie Jay on
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Yeah anytime they will not release the reasons raises a couple red flags in my book. The local union supported him, his guys supported him and city council was not involved in the situation. Will definately have to follow this story.
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Permalink Reply by Brian Dumser on
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So I guess standing up for the safety and well being of your troops, when bone head city managers want to close firehouses and reduce manpower is "insubordination" in Broken Arrow!
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Permalink Reply by Dustin J. Millis on
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Its really hard to offer any opinion when there are so few details about what happened.
In anycase... its clear that the city council was not happy with the way he was peforming his duites as chief.
More details are needed about this one, although; it sounds like we may never get any.
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You're right, Dustin. I'd really like to get more details of this story.
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Permalink Reply by Alan on
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It definitely be good to know more of the details. It sounds like the city manager wanted to cut manpower and equipment to save money without regard to public safety.
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Dustin the City Council had no part in this. This action was taken solely by the interim City Manager
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Permalink Reply by Dewayne and Diana Bean on
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Not enough info to determine anything. TCSS
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