A second firefighter resigned after an internal investigation about an employee posting video to social media that was taken during a fatal fire.
Polk County firefighter Michael Ruby resigned, in lieu of termination for posting unauthorized images of fire/paramedic scenes while on duty. His investigation stemmed from someone in the community seeing it on SnapChat, screenshotting it and complaining to the department.
Polk County Fire Rescue Captain James Williams was the first to resign on March 12.
Williams had been under investigation for his SnapChat video taken the night of the fire, which killed Loretta Pickard.
While county officials agreed to have an outside peer review of that fire, a second video surfaced of another fire attached to Williams’ phone number.