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Council gives first passage to ordinance updating fire department ages, ranks and retirement language
Summary
The Warwick City Council gave first passage to an ordinance (PCO 9‑25) to modernize and align fire department code with current practice, including lowering minimum applicant age to 18 and updating job titles and retirement language.
The Warwick City Council on first passage approved PCO 9‑25, an ordinance presented by the administration to update several sections of the city code governing the fire department including composition language, applicant age limits, a title change for a communications position and mandatory retirement language.
Fire Chief Peter McMichael explained that changes were intended to modernize outdated references and align local code with current practice and state law. Among the changes, the minimum age to apply to the fire department would be lowered from 21 to 18 and the upper…
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