Maplewood fire chief, 5 others placed on leave after death at nursing home

Maplewood Fire Chief Steve Lukin and five others in the department have been placed on administrative leave in the wake of what Mayor Nora Slawik is calling a “very serious complaint.”

The mayor declined to identify or discuss details of the complaint.

Maplewood Police Chief Paul Schnell, however, said firefighters and medics were called to the Good Samaritan Society nursing home on Aug. 7, where a 71-year-old woman suffering from Parkinson’s disease had stopped breathing and was unconscious.

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