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Delhi Fire Department approves five hires, warns residents about cooking and fireworks risks
Summary
Trustees approved five part‑time firefighter/EMT hires to fill promotions and a vacancy, and Fire Chief Campbell used the department update to urge residents to avoid unattended cooking, install early detection and exercise extreme caution with fireworks.
The Delhi Township Board of Trustees approved five part‑time firefighter/EMT hires and heard a department safety briefing at its June 2025 meeting.
Chief Campbell asked the board to approve five hires — Zachary R. Anderson, Mitchell C. Lewis, Evan S. Massey, Christopher N. Hammond and Tyler M. Hughes — all conditioned on preemployment physicals and drug tests and effective June 25, 2025. The trustees moved and seconded the motions and approved each by voice vote.
Campbell said the hires fill openings created by promotions to full‑time staff and one additional part‑time vacancy. He said the department planned a recruit class to run the five new part‑time hires through orientation.
In a wider safety briefing, Chief Campbell emphasized cooking fires as the most common cause of structure fires and urged residents to attend to cooking at all times. He reported that in recent incidents cooking‑related fires contributed roughly $420,000 in property loss and said early detection, ready access to extinguishers and, where present, sprinkler systems greatly limit damage. “If it’s attended, you know you have a fire, then it’s early extinguishment,” Campbell said, and he contrasted sprinklered and unsprinklered outcomes in recent calls.
Campbell also described a recent large dumpster fire near Pedretti that required additional water supply and mutual‑aid resources because the 40‑yard construction dumpster required more water than the department’s on‑unit tanks could provide. He told trustees the fire caused no property damage and no injuries.
On fireworks safety ahead of the Fourth of July, Campbell urged residents to “leave it to the experts,” warning that hand and eye injuries occur frequently and that sparklers can exceed 170 degrees and cause immediate burns.
All five hiring motions were approved during the department presentation; the board received the safety briefing for informational purposes.
