Orange : Fire Official to Become Rancho Santa Fe Chief
Arden Pedersen, a veteran firefighter from Orange, has been named fire chief in Rancho Santa Fe.
Pedersen, 48, a battalion chief at his old department, will succeed Peter Fox in the $55,200-a-year post starting Aug. 1. Fox will remain with the Fire Department in a management role.
The Rancho Santa Fe department has 31 full-time employees, 4 stations and 14 volunteers, and covers 48 square miles.
For several years, Fox was also chief of the Solana Beach Fire Department, but that agreement was severed by Solana Beach after the San Diego County Grand Jury accticized Fox for mismanagement. Pedersen will not assume the Solana Beach job.
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