fire chief

noun

1. the officer in charge of a municipality's fire department or departments.

Word History and Origins

Origin of fire chief¹

First recorded in 1885–90

Example Sentences

Justin Wells, a fire chief, said the department largely relies on professional development and “mentorship handed down from the officers to the younger members.”

From ProPublica

Chip Melton, fire chief in the Outer Banks’ Currituck County, said he recalled an elevator accident at another vacation rental home, but he said he was unaware it was possibly part of a larger problem.

From Washington Post

“It is really important that we use extreme caution when filling portable gasoline cans from a pump,” according to Tim Regan, a fire chief with the National Park Service.

From Outside Online

San Diego’s voting member on the working group that makes UASI grant recommendations is, in fact, not the police chief but the fire chief.

From Voice of San Diego

If you have one burning fossil fuel outside of your house, keep it away from any open windows or doors while pointing its exhaust away from the building, says Jonathan Otis, deputy fire chief in the often frigid city of Duluth, Minnesota.

From Popular-Science

Old Horton, the Baltimore fire chief, was in hospital, and so were several hundred of his men.

From The Daily Beast

The first orders came from the fire chief to take down the tarps, which were trapping “deadly smoke.”

From The Daily Beast

The police had not yet got around to this side of the block, but the fire chief seemed at all times to be where the crisis was.

From Project Gutenberg

For a few minutes every man was a fire chief and every volunteer shouted commands which he himself was the first to disobey.

From Project Gutenberg

During the next three days Tinkletown saw but little of its marshal, fire chief and street commissioner.

From Project Gutenberg

Fire Chief Swingle sent notice to the managers that all aisles must be kept cleared.

From Project Gutenberg

Charley Morton was the fire chief—though any and all took a hand at that when occasion arose.

From Project Gutenberg