Deputy director of emergency services Luchini resigns

The Door County Board’s Emergency Services Committee Thursday is expected to start the replacement process for the Deputy Director of Emergency Services after the departure last Friday of Anthony Luchini.

Dan Williams, Emergency Services Director, said Luchini was hired as a firefighter-paramedic by the Marshfield Fire Department.

Luchini came to Door County in March 2013 from a position with the Waushara County Emergency Services Department — the only county-run ambulance operation in Wisconsin other than Door County — as deputy director under Eric Christensen.

Christensen departed Oct. 22, 2013, leaving Luchini as the department’s interim director until Williams was hired in February 2014.

Then-Door County Administrator Maureen Murphy announced Christensen’s resignation the following Monday, saying he had departed to seek employment elsewhere.

Christensen, at last report in January 2015, was the Division Chief of Emergency Medical Services at George Washington University in Washington, D.C..

In a Gannett Wisconsin Media Investigative Team report published in the Door County Advocate June 25 and updated on Page 3 of this issue, a U.S. Food and Drug Administration investigation was conducted into allegations of tampering with two vials of a pain reliever, fentanyl. The incident resulted in at least one paramedic resigning.

Luchini never was a suspect in the incident. His only tie to the investigation is that he was interim director of the department at the time it was reported in January 2014.