Fire chief, assistant chief suspensions downgraded to reprimands

Wednesday, April 30, 2008 | 9:17 p.m. CDT; updated 1:12 p.m. CDT, Tuesday, July 22, 2008

COLUMBIA — Boone County Fire Protection District Chief Steve Paulsell and Assistant Fire Chief Doug Westhoff were suspended in early April in connection with the fire district’s falsification of its application for FBI bomb squad recertification, which has cost the district and the county its only certified bomb squad.

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