Fired Metro employee had been on leave 9 years

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A Metro train operator who was fired for derailing her packed train last month had just returned to the transit agency after nine years of medical leave, sources told The Examiner.

Some of her peers say she wasn’t given enough retraining after such an extended absence.

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