TORONTO — Police have determined that no criminal charges will be issued in the death of a firefighter student during a swift water training exercise.
CTV News reported that Adam Brunt, 30, a firefighting student from Ontario, died during a training exercise on Feb. 8. Brunt would have graduated in June and was taking the course to improve his resume before looking for a job.
Brunt was training in the Saugeen River when he got trapped under ice in a fast-flowing current.
The training course was administered by the private training company Herschel Rescue Training Systems. The company’s owner, a Toronto-area firefighter, was acquitted after being charged in 2010 in the death of a volunteer firefighter, Gary Kendall, who died during a similar ice rescue exercise.
Police concluded that there were no reasonable grounds to criminally charge anyone involved in the training course, according to the report. An investigation is still underway to determine the circumstances that led to Brunt’s death.