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He said he had not been able to return to work because of the assault and he knew of other officers who had been kicked, spat at and punched while on duty.

Kabiru was the second Kenyan to be killed while on duty in Haiti.

The Times reported in January that Crowley and her staff chose not to order 1,000 firefighters to remain on duty for a second shift the morning of the blaze, which would have doubled the number of personnel on hand.

And if Crowley had kept the 1,000 firefighters on duty, they could have staffed support vehicles besides engines, such as trucks for brush patrols and “plug buggies,” which are utility pickups that could have carried supplies and relief firefighters — and performed other tasks, the former chiefs said.

Only 18 firefighters are typically on duty at the two fire stations in the Palisades.