Firefighter who lit children’s hands on fire is suspended

CHARLOTTE — A local firefighter has been suspended from the Charlotte Volunteer Fire & Rescue after he was charged with lighting his children’s hands on fire.
Levi G. Dykema, 29, of Ferrisburgh pleaded not guilty last month in Addison County Superior Court to three counts of reckless endangerment. He was accused of applying hand sanitizer to the hands of his three children and lighting it.
Police said the children — ages 5, 7 and 10 — were not injured, despite the dan