The Scioto Valley Fire Board announced it will be hiring a private citizen to investigate fire chief Paul Kerr after he refused to respond to a house fire on Easter morning.
The decision came after another night of lengthy public discussion as well as the board spending ample time in executive session. Now, the board will hire a private citizen to investigate Kerr as well as the night of the fire and report back with their findings and recommendation. We talked a lot in [the executive session] about what to do, what not to do and it s put us in a big bind, said Phil Winslow, vice president of the SVFD Fire Board. So we re trying to be fair with everybody.