A Spokane firefighter is contesting a three-shift suspension he received after being charged with assaulting a patient on a medical call.
Capt. Greg Borg, who has been working for the department since 1979, threw a patient to the ground during a June 25 call after the patient spat and swore at him, according to an Oct. 5 discipline letter from fire Chief Bobby Williams and Tim Dunivant, the city’s budget director who was filling in for the city administrator, who was on vacation.
Borg was suspended without pay for the shifts based on a decision by Dunivant which the fire administration supported, Assistant fire Chief Brian Schaeffer said. Borg earned $114,495 in 2015, including about $10,000 in overtime pay.