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Fire chief outlines staffing changes, equipment sale and lightning damage to station generator
Summary
The fire chief reported personnel updates including a return from surgery and an academy graduate, sale of a reserve truck to a firefighter nonprofit, and a lightning-induced failure of a station generator transfer switch that required capital repair.
The Fire Chief (speaker 7) delivered the department's monthly update, noting Captain Niemeyer returned to duty on July 1 and a new firefighter, Jacob Gresham, graduated from the academy and was assigned to C shift. The chief said Lieutenant Chavez remains on medical leave until year‑end.
On equipment, the department sold a 2002 reserve Pierce truck via GovDeals for $8,500 to a 501(c)(3) group of firefighters that plans to ship it to Ecuador. The chief also reported a lightning strike during a July storm fried the fire station's original automatic transfer switch and that the repair was addressed as a capital expense. The department described a quick full response to a June flash flood at Hanley Industrial Court where crews helped people from submerged vehicles.
