Tag Archives: Rural Metro

The estate of a man who died last year from heat stroke in Arizona has filed suit against the sheriff’s deputies and firefighters who responded to his emergency. David Cutler, 23, died after his jeep crashed and caught fire in the desert. Cutler survived the crash and was found hours later wandering in the desert by Pima County Sheriff’s Deputies.

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The insurance company for the owners of an Arizona house that burned in 2016 is suing the Rural Metro Fire Department for failing to fully extinguish an earlier blaze at the house. The January 9, 2016 fire destroyed the home of Jack and Connie Donovan in Tucson, causing an estimated $641,886 in damage

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A class action lawsuit has been filed by EMS personnel working for Rural Metro of San Diego accusing the EMS giant of violating California’s labor laws that require employees be given adequate rest and meal time each day.

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The nation’s second largest for-profit provider of emergency services has filed for bankruptcy protection. Rural Metro of Scottsdale, Arizona is seeking protection under Chapter 11 – which is the chapter that allows companies who cannot pay their bills to reorganize ...

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An innocent man sat in a Southern California jail for five months because EMS personnel who transported him to the hospital inadvertently deposited his DNA at a murder scene they later responded to. The unbelievable story of the arrest and ...

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The latest skirmish in the on-going “who’s in charge” battle between police and fire (which I call police-fire wars) occurred Tuesday in Knox County, Tennessee where a Knox County Sheriff cited a firefighter for failing to move his apparatus at ...

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