City drops legal fight over Salem firefighter’s 2019 cancer death

A crowd of demonstrators gathers outside the Salem Fire Department's downtown station on Monday, Sept. 25, in support of Mo Stadeli, a firefighter who died of cancer in 2019. (Ardeshir Tabrizian/Salem Reporter)

Salem city leaders will stop fighting a former city firefighter’s widow over workplace injury benefits after a years-long legal battle.

City Manager Keith Stahley announced Monday the city would withdraw its appeal to the Oregon Supreme Court challenging an appellate judge’s finding that former firefighter Mo Stadeli’s 2019 death from tonsillar cancer was related to his work.

Stahley notified the Salem City Council of the decision at its Monday meeting as more than a dozen…

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