By Dave Shelton
Clearwater Citizen (Florida)
CLEARWATER, Fla. – One firefighter paramedic is out of work and a deputy chief was reprimanded after two unrelated internal investigations of the city’s Fire Rescue Department during the past 10 days.
In one case, a paramedic was fired over his apparent attempts to cover up errors that could have cost a local businessman his life. Reports show firefighter paramedic Dwayne Vaughn was unable to restart the victim’s heart because his portable defibrillator’s batteries were dead.
In the other case, investigators are trying to determine who implanted pornography on the personal computer of a city fire chief. Division Chief Richard Riley was reprimanded for bringing in an unprotected personal laptop computer to the department for city use involving training programs.
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