CINCINNATI —

A Cincinnati assistant fire chief has been fired months after he was placed on leave pending an internal investigation.

City officials confirmed back in July that Cincinnati Fire Chief Frank McKinley placed Assistant Chief Sherman Smith on paid administrative leave, pending an internal investigation involving "a potential violation of city of Cincinnati and Cincinnati Fire Department policies." Advertisement This content is imported from Twitter. You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site.

The fire department confirmed Sherman was removed from city service effective Thursday.

It's unclear why there was an internal investigation underway.

Smith had been with the department since 1994, and wa

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