A retired Baltimore City Fire Department lieutenant is urging the Harford County Council to consider getting paid firefighters, in the wake of a recent fatal fire.

Giff Nickol, of Bel Air, and three other county residents – mostly paid firefighters working in or retired from other departments – established “harfordfirefacts.com” to advocate for supplementing the county?s all-volunteer system with some paid firefighters. They spoke before the County Council this week.