Will the real, um, no, the fake Chief Don Bock please stand up?
Commissioners on the Key Largo Fire-Rescue and Emergency Medical Services District want to know who has been calling the U.S. Department of Labor pretending to be the chief and telling the feds that the handful of paid members on the volunteer fire department are breaking the law by covering some volunteer shifts.
One of the five commissioners, George Mirabella, has been vocal in his accusations that the practice is going on in the department. He’s been so adamant that paid staffers are covering volunteer shifts that his colleagues suspect he’s behind the phone calls.
“There’s only one commissioner who has been banging the drum on this,” Commissioner Bob Thomas said at Monday’s board meeting at the mile marker 99 fire station. “George, was it you?”