City wants to fire fireman accused of firehouse thefts

Monday, June 29, 2009
By Rich Lord, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

“City of Pittsburgh officials will attempt to fire a firefighter accused of calling in false alarms and then burglarizing a Lawrenceville firehouse. The firefighter, 31-year-old Vincent Manzella, was charged but not yet arrested after a police investigation identified him as the person who called 911 to trick firefighters into leaving their station unmanned three times in early April. He allegedly then entered and took petty cash and personal cash. The complaint says he “stated that he was really bad into heroin at the time” after a work injury led to an addiction to narcotics.Without providing statistics, Mr. Huss said the Fire Bureau has “more of this type of illicit drug use than we do in the other public safety bureaus.”

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