Frederick aka Donna, the cross-dressing phony firefighter

There are some crazy news stories that surpass the best fiction for pure entertainment value.  This is one of them.  In a nutshell, ex-con gets out of jail and tries to scam some money by forming a private volunteer fire department out in a remote Arizona town.  The guy poses as a female chief of said department, buys a beat up old fire truck, tries to solicit donations of more firefighting equipment on fire service forums, scams some eBay buyers and sellers, harasses the real volunteer firefighters in town, tries to convince the 911 center to route calls to his personal phone, finally gets caught / charged with committing felony fraud and forgery, and is run out of town.  It’s a funny but fascinating story, and the best account appears on a great fire service blog called Firegeezer.com.  Follow this link to the story, which is actually page two of the story, but since it’s in a blog, the first post is at the bottom. Read up the page, then go back down to the bottom and click on the ‘previous page’ tab for the continuation and conclusion.