By Matthew Nestel, The New York Post
Original publication date: Dec. 18

New York City — The firefighters union is taking legal action to force the city to surrender recordings and call logs that they believe will exonerate a 9-1-1 dispatcher who directed responders to a fatal Thanksgiving fire in The Bronx.

In the wake of a raging blaze that killed barber Juan Marte, the dispatcher was accused of bungling the 9-1-1 response and sending firefighters to the wrong address.

The Uniformed Firefighters Association is seeking a judge’s intervention to get the NYPD and FDNY to provide the proof that dispatcher was not at fault because he or she was given the wrong address by the 9-1-1 caller.

The legal move may also prevent the tapes from being destroyed.

The city did not immediately have a response. 

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