How to Use fire chief in a Sentence

fire chief

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  • The fire chief then screamed at them and urged them to get on the ground.
    — María Luisa Paúl, Washington Post, 23 June 2023
  • The man is an employee of the bank, the fire chief said.
    — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 28 May 2024
  • Most of San Diego’s 18 fire chiefs have been White men.
    — David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Mar. 2024
  • The fire chief said that the lieutenant in charge of the E.M.T.s had never gotten off the fire truck.
    — Mitch Smith, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2023
  • What are the salaries of the Milwaukee police chief and fire chief?
    — Alison Dirr, Journal Sentinel, 8 Jan. 2024
  • The city’s fire chief says driverless cabs are not ready for prime time.
    — Laurent Belsie, The Christian Science Monitor, 31 Oct. 2023
  • The fire chief said that the lieutenant had never gotten off the fire truck.
    — Jessica Jaglois, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Feb. 2023
  • The fire chief said the blaze quickly spread from the first floor to the second and cut off access to the staircase.
    — Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 3 Jan. 2024
  • Norris Croom, a fire chief in Castle Rock, said the show was not worth the risk.
    — Payton Major and Haley Brink, CNN, 2 July 2022
  • Dave Montoya, a local fire chief, heard the call and offered to drive up the pass.
    — CBS News, 18 Nov. 2022
  • The fire chief said the grant, split over two years, pays for the new firefighters’ salary and pension.
    — John Benson, cleveland, 25 Jan. 2023
  • The man with the snakes, Erik Vogel, did not contact the Madeira police chief or fire chief.
    — Jeanne Houck, The Enquirer, 28 Mar. 2022
  • The grand marshal will come next with the banner held by the fire chief, police chief and the mayor.
    — Eric Levenson, CNN, 4 Dec. 2022
  • The fire chief said neighbors rushed to the scene to lift parts of the roof off the surviving woman as a fire spread.
    — CBS News, 14 Apr. 2023
  • The fire chief and the head of the firefighters union later said that the fire was extinguished.
    — Jon Schuppe, NBC News, 19 Sep. 2023
  • He was promoted to fire chief, Gilbert's third, in 2013.
    — Joshua Bowling, The Arizona Republic, 9 Mar. 2022
  • The woman, who lived on the third floor, was found by firefighters in the basement, said the city’s fire chief, Pat Sweeney.
    — Cliff Pinckard, cleveland, 22 Dec. 2022
  • Wallace’s wife made it out of the home, but she was hurt, according to Lebanon’s fire chief.
    — Jennifer Edwards Baker, The Enquirer, 9 Feb. 2024
  • Two years ago, the town hired a professional fire chief.
    — New York Times, 16 May 2022
  • Back up at the school, Linton, whose husband is the local fire chief, sat at her desk.
    — Chris Kenning, The Courier-Journal, 18 Dec. 2021
  • The work is so heavy that some rescuers have quit, said the fire chief, who spends time talking through the issues with his teams.
    — Arelis R. Hernández, Washington Post, 30 Jan. 2024
  • He was treated at a hospital and released, the fire chief said.
    — arkansasonline.com, 6 Mar. 2024
  • More than 300 searchers were taking part, said Huang Shangwu, a deputy fire chief.
    — NBC News, 24 Mar. 2022
  • The city’s fire chief said there was evidence gasoline was used.
    — Yuliya Talmazan, NBC News, 1 Dec. 2023
  • The flames were extinguished within the hour, and responders had left the scene by 4:50 p.m., the Topsfield fire chief said.
    — Camilo Fonseca, BostonGlobe.com, 12 July 2022
  • The child was taken to a hospital, according to a deputy fire chief.
    — Pilar Arias | Fox News, Fox News, 16 Aug. 2022
  • His grandfather was the fire chief in Newburgh Heights.
    — Carol Kovach, cleveland, 23 Aug. 2022
  • Roberts was the suburban Salt Lake County city’s first full-time fire chief.
    — Alixel Cabrera, The Salt Lake Tribune, 30 Aug. 2022
  • Embers from advancing fires can travel two kilometers, or 1.2 miles, in the air, igniting fires in areas across bodies of water, said Russ Geyer, the fire chief.
    — Norimitsu Onishi, New York Times, 29 May 2024
  • Two spectators were critically injured, while a former fire chief from the area, Corey Comperatore was killed.
    — Michael Biesecker, Fortune, 15 July 2024

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