The leader of Orange County’s biggest fire department is calling to change how the county runs its ambulances, asking county leaders to get rid of their private ambulance contractor and alleging they stacked the deck against him during contract negotiations.

It comes after OC Supervisors rejected calls from the Orange County Fire Authority to let the agency take over 911 calls for half of the county and instead let Falck handle the calls.

In an Aug. 29 letter, OC Fire Authority Chief Brian Fennessy alleges the contracting process was unfair.

The letter, which shared a mixture of statements from Fennessy and the Fire Authority’s lawyers, alleged that county leaders put two former employees of Falck on the review committee along with Tammi McConnell, the former director of OC Emergency Me

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