January 22, 2021
Integrity is printed on the outside of every Everett Fire vehicle.On Wednesday we passed along a report issued on December 28th, 2020 from the Washington State Auditor’s Office into the City’s handling of an investigation conducted in 2019 by the Everett Fire Department into allegations of fraud by an inspector in the Fire Marshal’s Office. The end result of the case is the inspector resigned and paid $12,759.13 to the City, the equivalent of 229 hours in pay. The inspector resigned on January 21, 2020. On January 15, 2021 Everett Fire Chief Dave DeMarco sent an email to Everett City Council members advising of the investigation and attached what he called an executive and detailed summary of the fraud investigation. He also attached a summary of the findings presented to the employee. You can find each below as received from the City of Everett today (1/22/2021) with redactions of employees names by the City.