WASHINGTON -- A public university in Colorado has been hit with two federal civil rights complaints alleging that 20 scholarship programs are either illegally race-based or reserved for undocumented immigrants, The Post has learned.

While working together at an Orange County Fire Authority station in Buena Park, Andrew Robles and Gabriel Flores talked often over coffee about how they wanted to give back to community members like them who dreamed of careers in the fire service but also faced financial barriers to get there.