Bureaucratic Error Costs Firefighter Widow Thousands Of Dollars

By Brian Maass
DENVER (CBS4)– The widow of a Denver firefighter is trying to recover an estimated $70,000 in pension benefits lost due to a simple bureaucratic error 15 years ago.
“The whole process was poorly managed and poorly executed,” said Julie Drennan.
Denver Firefighter Charlie Drennan (credit: CBS)
Her husband, Charles Drennan Jr., a division chief with the Denver fire department, was shot and killed Sept. 13, 2001. He had gone to the home of a fellow firefighter to co