Hazing alleged at Deale VFD

An investigation is under way into allegations that a young man was tied to a hose tower and pushed around as part of an initiation into the Deale Volunteer Fire Department last spring.

The county Fire Department was made aware of the incident in late April and immediately contacted county police, the fire marshal and the department's internal affairs bureau, said Battalion Chief Matthew Tobia, a county Fire Department spokesman.

Police interviewed volunteers at the station, at 6000 Drum Point Road, and determined there had been some form of hazing done to the 19-year-old Churchton man, who asked not to be named. His...