SAN DIEGO -- Fire officials in Novato and the family a firefighter killed while battling a wildfire near Julian are upset with inconsistencies in accounts of his death.

Steven Rucker, 38, was one of 11 firefighters from the Novato Fire Protection District in Marin County who helped battle October's Cedar Fire.

Jeff Meston, fire chief of the Novato Fire Protection District, has taken steps to correct a San Diego County Medical Examiner's Office report detailing the events leading to Rucker's death, according to The Los Angeles Times.

"Our issue really is (that) the medical examiner's report is inaccurate," Meston told The Times.

"From the family's perspective, they're having to defend Steve's capability."

The report said four Novato firefighters were running toward a building so they could deploy their emergency fire shelters, or tents. Rucker, it says, tripped and fell on the patio and was overcome by flames while the others deployed their tents.

"When people deploy shelters they're in the wild land in the middle of nowhere," Meston told The Times. "Why would you be in a quarter-inch foil shelter when you could have stucco siding and a roof over your head?"

Fire officials are also concerned about another report, by the San Diego County Sheriff's Department Bomb and Arson Unit, indicating Rucker might have been carrying a chain saw and other tools while trying to run for safety.

Sheriff's Sgt. Conrad Grayson, who heads the Bomb and Arson Unit, told The Times his department's report said it only surmised that Rucker dropped the chain saw when he was overtaken by the fire.

What particularly bothers the family and fire officials was a news report -- later corrected -- that Rucker was running with his tools, something firefighters are trained not to do, according to The Times.