Fairplay fire company representatives face task force's
questions Fairplay Volunteer Fire Co.’s chief and president
faced questions Monday from other members of a task force
working to revive the suspended company.  This was the task
force’s first time hearing directly from officials with
firsthand knowledge of the company’s problems.  More than 40
people sat in the audience at Washington County Agricultural
Education Center for Monday’s meeting, listening to Chief
Leonard Heller and President Bill Pennington field a number of
questions about the company’s operations, membership and
shortcomings.  The county commissioners created the task force
last month when they suspended the fire company for not
responding quickly enough to some of its calls in recent years.
Pennington said the fire company should have been afforded due
process, but wasn’t.  This was the first time he’s had the
opportunity to present the fire company’s side in at least three
years, he said.  Pennington said county officials have not comm