One city firefighter has been fired and two others have been suspended from their jobs.
City officials said the termination of firefighter Scott Graham stemmed from an arrest last fall. Firefighters Todd Guertin and Daniel Goudreault have been placed on unpaid leave while the city investigates alleged improprieties.
A resident of North Andover, Goudreault, 53, was arrested at his home on June 30 and charged with assaulting a police officer and resisting arrest. He was reported by a family member to be “highly intoxicated” and “aggressive” that evening, according to a police report.
Goudreault hit Officer Thomas Driscoll in the face while struggling with police, according to the report.
Goudreault continued to wrestle with officers who were attempting to take him to a cruiser, and refused to put his hands behind his back, police said. Officers warned him they would use a Taser to subdue him, police said. Officers Tased him and used pepper spray to subdue him, the report said. Mayor James Fiorentini said Guertin was arrested in July for an undisclosed reason and has since been placed on unpaid leave. Due to the state's domestic violencelLaw, Haverhill police said they could not provide any details about the arrest.
A former secretary of the city's firefighter union, Guertin was disciplined in 2012 when, after the death of an 84-year-old woman in a house fire on Washington Street, he said Fiorentini should be "charged with murder for taking the rescue truck out of service over a dispute with the union."