UPDATE:
CSFD spokesman Mike Smaldino says via email, We cannot comment on any personnel matters when it comes to discipline.. We will not comment on nonfire department-related issues regarding employees and their outside employment.
On Jan. 29, a resident who is likely to lose his affordable rental home in a flipping scenario wrote to Colorado Springs Fire Department Deputy Fire Chief Randy Royal seeking information about Royal s son s role in the plan.
Bill Sulzman, 82, is one of many residents housed in properties formerly owned by Ithaka Land Trust. The cottage where he lives on South Tejon Street was sold in October to Drew Gaiser, a West Metro Fire Protection District firefighter and developer. Gaiser and CSFD firefighter Ryan Royal, Randy Royal s son, âhave a joint venture to work togetherâ on renovating the properties, Gaiser told the