Workplace Hazing, Battery & Waterboarding at Fire Station 21 in Marion County, Florida: Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice and the Active $10M+ Bermudez Hazing Institutional-Liability Litigation to Bear, We Pursue the County Fire-Rescue Agency and the On-Duty Leadership for Failing to Intervene, We Preserve the Station Surveillance Footage Before the 30-Day Overwrite, We Pull the Internal-Affairs Files and Personnel Records of All Ten Terminated Employees, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How Municipal Claims Machines Value and Deny These Cases, Florida’s Sovereign Immunity Caps and the Legislative Claims-Bill Path Beyond Them, Belt-Whipping and Simulated-Drowning Trauma to a 19-Year-Old Firefighter, the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ for Injury Victims — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911
What Happened at Fire Station 21 Was Not Hazing — and You Are Not Alone in This If you are reading this page, you or someone you love was subjected to something that is being called “hazing” in the news. We need you to hear us say this first: what happened at Marion County Fire Rescue Station 21 on November 16, 2025 was not hazing. It was kidnapping. It was battery. It was robbery. It was torture — specifically, waterboarding — committed by coworkers against a 19-year-old who had been with the agency for barely a year, inside a building that was supposed to be his workplace and his refuge. The word “hazing” is a euphemism that protects the people who did this and minimizes what was done to you. We do not use it except to name the culture that allowed it. You may be sitting in a house in Ocala or somewhere across Marion County at a hour when no one should be awake, reading this on a phone, trying to understand whether what happened has a legal answer. It does. The fact that four employees were arrested and six more were fired tells you that the county…