A rural Colorado town's volunteer firefighters have left the department after the fire chief recently resigned.
Boone Fire Chief Robert Franz stepped down from his position earlier this month, and it led to the firefighters who served under him to follow suit, KOAA-TV reports. That has temporarily shut down the department, forcing dispatchers to send units from other agencies, including the Pueblo Rural and U.S. Army Pueblo Chemical Depot fire departments, to handle a Dec. 13 fire at an abandoned print shop in the town.
It's not clear what led to Franz's resignation or what prompted other firefighters to join his departure. Town officials, however, have faced this issue in the past.
"When the last fire chief quit, all of his department went with him until we restarted and then a lot of those firemen came back on," a Boone Town Council member told KOAA.
