Firefighters: How did it happen?

May 30, 2003
The Wyoming and national firefighting community is wondering why and how a Newcastle man with a prior conviction of driving under the influence alcohol and who had been suspended from the Newcastle Volunteer Fire Department for a departmental alcohol violation was allowed to drive a tanker truck to a fire call in what turned out to be a fatal drinking and driving accident late Thursday night.
The Wyoming and national firefighting community is wondering why and how a Newcastle man with a prior conviction of driving under the influence alcohol and who had been suspended from the Newcastle Volunteer Fire Department for a departmental alcohol violation was allowed to drive a tanker truck to a fire call in what turned out to be a fatal drinking and driving accident late Thursday night.

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