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In September 2016, social media users spread a story holding that DeQuincy, Louisiana's atheist mayor had fired a firefighter for praying at the scene of a call: There was no truth to this report, which was simply another falsehood promulgated malware-spreading fake news sites that illegally appropriate the trademarks of legitimate news organizations with fabricated clickbait stories in order to lure in readers and generate advertising revenue. The mayor of DeQuincy is actually Lawrence Henagan (not Lawana Jones), and the pictured firefighters hail from Johnston, Iowa (not DeQuincy, Louisiana).
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