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

The town’s fire chief at the time, Charles Brock, said that when the war ended he would feel relief because it would mean “we’re not going to lose any more boys there.”

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Jaime Moore, currently a deputy chief, will take the reins after a lengthy, nationwide search during which the mayor interviewed fire chiefs of other major cities.

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“The fire chief does not have the money to staff the resources that are needed,” Escobar told The Times on Jan. 10, three days after the fires started burning.

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The occasional cut to Yul Vazquez as the fire chief spearheading rescue efforts, however, is this movie’s barometer of increasingly bad news.

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Fennessy, who serves as fire chief of the Orange County Fire Authority, has been fighting wildfires for 47 years.

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