Muscle Shoals Fire Department: Party Central?

 

Several readers have contacted us with the same request: Be fair! If we publish information on the drunken arrest of a 20 year-old firefighter trainee, we need to publish the same info on a newly promoted lieutenant in the Muscle Shoals brigade.

On or around May 20th, 33 year-old Nicholas Donald Thomason was promoted, and congratulations dotted his Facebook page. Five days later, Thomason was arrested in Florence on a DUI charge. Thomason had a similar alcohol related arrest in Muscle Shoals in 2017.

We have two takeaways: 1) Is Florence out to get Muscle Shoals firefighters? (For the humor impaired, that's a joke) and 2) Is the MSFD promoting a party culture? We welcome thoughts on the latter.