The former fire chief of Old Orchard Beach was ordered to spend one year behind bars for setting a fire that burned more than 40 acres.
Ricky Plummer admitted starting the fire, but we may never know why. In a letter to the court, he said he could not explain his actions. For more than 40 years, Plummer served the fire service, many of them as chief of communities in Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Florida.
“As chief, I was supposed to set the example. I failed miserably when I caused this event to happen,” Plummer said as he addressed the court. The event Plummer is talking about is a fire in April of 2016 that took more than 100 firefighters nearly 5 hours to extinguish