fire chief
the officer in charge of a municipality's fire department or departments.
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Justin Wells, a fire chief, said the department largely relies on professional development and “mentorship handed down from the officers to the younger members.”
“Half of the Family Just Disappeared Overnight” | by Perla Trevizo and Lexi Churchill, ProPublica and The Texas Tribune; Suzy Khimm and Mike Hixenbaugh, NBC News; Illustrations by Laila Milevski, ProPublica | August 19, 2021 | ProPublicaChip 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.
Another child dies in home elevator accident, days after regulators pushed for recall | Todd Frankel | July 14, 2021 | 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.
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.
An Overlooked Piece of Gloria’s Policing Proposals Could Have a Big Impact | Jesse Marx | April 15, 2021 | Voice of San DiegoIf 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.
The safest ways to stay warm during a power outage | John Kennedy | February 18, 2021 | Popular-Science
Old Horton, the Baltimore fire chief, was in hospital, and so were several hundred of his men.
The Stacks: H.L. Mencken on the 1904 Baltimore Fire | H.L. Mencken | October 4, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe first orders came from the fire chief to take down the tarps, which were trapping “deadly smoke.”
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.
The Incendiary | W. A. (William Augustine) LeahyFor a few minutes every man was a fire chief and every volunteer shouted commands which he himself was the first to disobey.
Ethel Morton at Chautauqua | Mabell S. C. SmithDuring the next three days Tinkletown saw but little of its marshal, fire chief and street commissioner.
The Daughter of Anderson Crow | George Barr McCutcheonfire chief Swingle sent notice to the managers that all aisles must be kept cleared.
Chicago's Awful Theater Horror | VariousCharley Morton was the fire chief—though any and all took a hand at that when occasion arose.
The Rules of the Game | Stewart Edward White
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