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Veteran Portland firefighter dies in off-duty boat accident December 12, 2020 GMT PORTLAND, Maine (AP) Portland’s most senior firefighter has died in an apparent off-duty boating accident in Casco Bay, fire officials said Saturday. Rescuers with the Portland Fire Department and U.S. Coast Guard were called to the area of Cushing Island at 12:40 p.m. Friday on a report of an unmanned vessel. They found firefighter Timothy Flynn in the water about 500 feet from his boat. Efforts to revive Flynn on the scene and at later a local hospital were unsuccessful, fire officials said. Flynn, 58, had been with the Portland Fire Department since 1986 and spent years serving on Ladder Co. 1 out of the Munjoy Hill Station. Later he became pilot of the department’s Marine 1 vessel, a post he held until his death. ....
Three deputy fire chiefs in Portland disciplined for not enforcing mask mandates Fire Chief Keith Gautreau, who was photographed without a mask in a firehouse, conceded that we could all do better with this and we should be and it starts at the top. Share Three deputy fire chiefs in Portland have been reprimanded for failing to enforce a month-old policy requiring firefighters to wear masks at all times in the fire stations when social distancing is not possible. Meanwhile, Fire Chief Keith Gautreau responded to questions Thursday about a photograph showing him without a mask inside a fire station. Gautreau said he took off his mask briefly to pose for a photo with firefighters during a retirement party. ....