Misconduct | Employees sacked for sharing 'reprehensible' fire photos

Three men have been sacked after photographs of them messing around at work were discovered on Facebook - CNN reports.

The men, who had been employees of California-based Bigge Crane and Rigging Co, had been working at sites destroyed by a wildfire which had burned through more than 153,000 acres, killing at least 86 people and destroying nearly 14,000 structures.

The offensive pictures found on social media included one of a dead cat with a bottle of beer in its mouth, one of two men pretending to drive a burned-out motorhome, and one of a man pretending to jump on the charred remains of a trampoline.

The Town of Paradise’s Facebook page posted the photos Saturday saying it had already contacted the men’s employer to complain. The post read: