Deputies say man tried to impersonate firefighter at crash
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) – A man who investigators say impersonated firefighters at the scene of a crash is facing criminal impersonation charges.
WDEF-TV reports Paul Herrell Jr. was found directing traffic at a crash site on Thursday evening.
Highway 58 Fire Department personnel told traffic investigators Herrell was not a firefighter. Deputies were informed Herrell had shown up to incidents several times, trying to act in an official capacity.
Herrell consented to a search of his car where authorities found a light bar installed with flashing red and yellow lights as well as strobe lights in the tail lamps and yellow lights in the windshield. Inside the car were a siren, a public address system and a Highway 58 Fire Department hat.
No phone number was listed for Herrell in a local directory.
