SAN FRAN KICKS ASHES IN HERO FIREMAN'S FACE

Smoke him out of job & pension for getting HIV in line of duty

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Former firefighter Stephen Kloster says he contracted HIV while working on an ambulance in 2003; (inset) San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie

SAN FRANCISCO firefighter who contracted HIV on the job while heroically treating an injured patient is being denied his hard-earned pension and the chance to return to work in what sources describe as a grave injustice.

Stephen Kloster, 50, says he was working on Sept. 15, 2003, when open scratches on his arms were splashed with infected blood from a woman who had fallen in her kitchen.

“I didn’t think anything about it at the time,” he told The San Francisco Examiner.