Denver fire chief bagged hundreds of hours of comp time attending memorials, parties, visiting firehouses
Posted on AllSides April 16th, 2024
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Denver Fire Chief Desmond Fulton, who earns $230,000 per year and is one of the city's highest-paid workers, has also amassed more than 400 hours of "comp time" in the last three years by attending memorial services for firefighters, attending retirement parties for his employees, attending mayoral forums and going to a candlelight vigil for victims of the Club Q mass shooting in 2022. It's a practice one veteran Denver firefighter termed "disgusting," and one that appears to be prohibited according to Denver's municipal code. After learning what the CBS...