Episode 401 - David Dahlin - Seattle Firefighters Fired for COVID Mandate

Cleared Hot

Society & Culture

4.9 • 11K Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2025

⏱️ 157 minutes

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Summary

David was a career fireman for the City of Seattle. In the fall of 2021, he and approximately 70 of his colleagues were suspended from duty and ultimately fired or forced to resign (in lieu of termination) for refusing the City's COVID-19 shot mandate. Even though the 'mandate' was lifted in Feb of 2023, they have not returned them to duty. At the time of his termination, he was one month shy of 22 years, and the senior driver of Ladder Company 5.

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0:00.0	Okay, got the red smoke.
0:03.1	Gun runs. North and south. West of the smoke. West of the smoke.
0:09.1	Okay, copy, west of the smoke. I'm looking at danger close now.
0:13.6	Come on winter, baby. Give it to me. I need it. You're cleared hot.
0:17.2	Copy, cleared hot.
0:19.3	When you guys are in fires, fighting fires, you're not wearing ear pro, are you?
0:22.5	We're not, and they're actually very loud.
0:24.3	It's a loud environment.
0:25.5	The inside of building when the fire's going, it's loud.
0:28.8	Would it actually be more dangerous, though, for you guys to have earpro?
0:32.4	I feel like that's just another thing that can melt to your head.
0:35.6	Not so much.
0:37.1	The danger for me is you reduce your situational
0:40.1	awareness because if the, if the, um, when you're listening to what's going on, you, we've got.
0:47.8	And you're using radios too, right? We are using radios. And, and as of late,
0:52.8	a lot of people went to ear pieces.
0:55.0	Double or single?
0:57.0	Single. Well, a single earpiece and it would be, you'd put it in your ear.
1:02.0	Some of the guys paid and had like had them custom molded and so forth.
1:06.0	Have you ever had that done?
1:07.0	I have not.
1:08.0	It's an interesting experience.
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