MN Fire Chief Reprimanded over Complaint Retaliation

New documents show that St. Paul Fire Chief Tim Butler was reprimanded for retaliating against an employee who filed a complaint against him.

St. Paul Firefighters Union president Mike Smith responded to the written reprimand, saying in a statement that, "firefighters have a stressful enough job as it is and to put up with harassment and retaliation from a fire chief is unacceptable."

Chief Butler was also in the news this week over a derogatory comment in an email to a firefighter.