Cpt. Shayn Proler's colleagues told supervisors at the Houston Fire Department that he seemed afraid to go into fires. After Proler froze during a building fire in March 2006, the department transferred him to its training academy and refused his requests to be transferred back to a fire-suppression unit.As it turned out, Proler suffered global transient amnesia, a temporary but almost total disruption of short-term memory. And on Thursday, a divided Texas appellate court upheld a jury verdict that found the Houston Fire Department violated the Americans with Disability Act by reassigning ...
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