BARTONVILLE, Ill. – The Bartonville Fire Department is under fire again — this time, after a years-old video resurfaced on social media allegedly showing the assistant chief using a racial slur.
A pair of videos on TikTok — viewed almost 200,000 times combined — allegedly show Drew Zachman using the N-word in a New Year’s greeting.
It’s timestamped January 1, 2019.
25 News reports no one with the village or the fire department has commented, but the Peoria NAACP chapter says the word was dropped back in 2009, calling it “offensive,” and “sets back society.”
Back in April, it came to light a volunteer firefighter in Bartonville was put on probation after allegedly drinking before driving a fire truck to a call.
