All paid firefighters at the Isleton Fire Department, the assistant city manager, the accounts payable clerk and the city building inspector were laid off in a unanimous vote by the city council.

The Isleton City Council voted to approve a recommendation to lay off all paid fire department staff at a special meeting on Tuesday night.

Officials in Alabama have uncovered tragic new details in the “bizarre” shooting death of a fire chief who was trying to assist two drivers who had accidentally hit a deer. Coweta County Fire Chief James Bartholomew Cauthen,