Fire chiefs banned from fire hall for life after snowmobiler hit and killed [Video]

The fire chief and deputy chief of a Nova Scotia volunteer fire department have been removed from their positions following the death of a snowmobiler who was struck and killed by a fire truck last week.

The Municipality of Cumberland council voted Wednesday to discharge fire chief Jerrold Cotton and deputy chief Andrea Bishop and ban them for life from the fire station in the community of Collingwood Corner, N.S. Cotton and Bishop are married.

Cotton and Bishop also must remove all references to the Collingwood and District Fire Department from their personal vehicles, staff will recover all municipally-owned property from the couple, and the locks will be changed at the fire hall. 

“Once the hard evidence came out on Monday about what had happened as far as the fire truck striking …