Los Angeles Fire Department Chief Ralph M. Terrazas has a message for his staff: Put your political and other differences aside before you jeopardize public safety.

In a Feb. 16 memo to the agency’s nearly 3,200 firefighters about “appropriate workplace behavior,” Terrazas said he recently became aware of a few issues that concern him, including “on-duty heated discussions” involving the perceived lack of patriotism by NFL players kneeling during the national anthem…

Read more in the Los Angeles Daily News.