Three and a half years after a young, inexperienced fire truck driver killed three people in a crash in Westport, and weeks after the city refused a payout for him, the Kansas City Fire Department has initiated a formal driver training program.

Like most of his peers over the past couple of decades at least, Dominic Biscari was in the process of learning to drive a 40,000-pound fire truck on the job when he ran a red light at full throttle while behind the wheel of Pumper 19 on Dec. 15, 2021.

The big rig hit a compact SUV that had the green light and was passing through the intersection at Broadway Boulevard and Westport Road. The impact killed the SUV’s two occupants, as well as a woman who was on the sidewalk. Her body was recovered hours afterwards from beneath the wreckage of a bui

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