San Jose fire chief in hot seat over drug oversight failures - San José Spotlight

San Jose fire chief in hot seat over drug oversight failures - San José Spotlight

To save money, San Jose leaders cut a critical fire department program last year that tracked the storage of addictive painkillers for cross-trained firefighter paramedics. Nine months later, the theft of opioids from nearly two dozen fire stations has raised concerns that patients in serious pain received tampered drugs. San Jose Fire Fighters Local 230, the city’s firefighter union, warned against the oversight cuts as recently as a March San …