A fire chief in New York has been stripped of his duties after he yelled at a 10-year-old girl on a stretcher to “shut the f— up” as she was being loaded into a fire truck.
Peter Alt, chief of the North Babylon Volunteer Fire Company, was captured on video on Monday that has since gone viral, berating and hurling obscenities at the girl outside her Long Island home.
“Shut the f— up! It’s like this with you every f—ing week!” he is seen shouting at the child in the cellphone footage captured by a concerned neighbour, WNBC reported.
The video , which has garnered more the 4.7 views on TikTok, shows the sobbing girl as she pleads with the fire department.
“I don’t want to go!,” she screams. “I want to go home,” to which Alt responds, “Shut your mouth!”
The incident came after the g