Glendale Fire Department holds graduation ceremony

By Mark Kellam, <i><a href=”mailto:mark.kellam@latimes.com”>mark.kellam@latimes.com</a></i>

June 20, 2014 6:19 PM PT

The Glendale Fire Department welcomed 14 new graduates on Thursday from Fire Recruit Academy.

The ceremony was held at Glendale Fire Station #21, where each firefighter was presented their badge, helmet shield, belt buckle, and a certificate of appointment.

Fire Chief Harold Scoggins closed the ceremony by administering the department’s oath of office to the new recruits.

The department’s newest members successfully completed 13 weeks of basic training at the fire academy and will continue training through the coming year.

Glendale’s new firefighters include Matthew Andrew, Shane Baker, Timothy Bird, Greg Blikian, Nathan Chaim, Andy Galvan, John Giovanini, Grant Hardyment, Shawn Lawrence, Daniel May, Guy McDermott, Amanda Thoensen, Stanley Woo and Jeffrey Wood.

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Mark Kellam

Mark Kellam was city editor of the Glendale News-Press and Burbank Leader. He joined Times Community News in July 2011 as the business-politics reporter and was promoted to city editor in January 2013. Previously, he was an editor at the Los Angeles Daily News and managing editor at Champion Newspapers in Chino, Calif. Prior to that, he was an editor at Amos Suburban Newspapers in Dayton, Ohio, for several years. Kellam holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Indiana University.