The new training program is meant to prevent future tragedies like the Westport crash that still haunts the victims’ families and cost Kansas City taxpayers millions of dollars.

Nearly four years after a fire truck driver killed three people in a crash in Westport and the city refused a payout for him, the Kansas City Fire Department has initiated a formal driver training ...

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