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The 6th Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a trial court ruling that found that an African American firefighter recruit was not discriminated against when he was dismissed from the Toledo fire academy. Major Smith III filed suit claiming that instructors improperly trained him on a critical ventilation evolution, causing him to wash out of the academy.

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A race-discrimination suit brought by a firefighter-recruit who washed out of the Toledo Fire Academy in 2018 has been decided in favor of the city. Major Smith III filed the suit claiming that his dismissal from the academy on account of his race.

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A firefighter recruit who failed a final practical exercise involving ventilating a roof with a chainsaw and then failed a retest, is now suing Toledo claiming instructors gave him wrong information so he would be terminated. Major Smith III is accusing the city, the mayor, the fire chief and retired fire chief of race discrimination.

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