D.C. Fire Chief Adrian H. Thompson, who has been taking plenty of heat for the department’s response in the fatal mugging of a New York Times reporter, has brought administrative charges against six firefighters that could lead to their firing, a government source has told The Examiner.

Four of the firefighters were involved in the Jan. 6 call in which emergency teams mistakenly thought veteran journalist David Rosenbaum was drunk when they found him near his Gramercy Street NW home. Investigators learned later that the 63-year-old Rosenbaum had been beaten. He died two days afterward.