Mayor Offers Acting Fire Chief Top Job
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Acting Fire Chief Tracy Jarman accepted an offer Monday from Mayor Jerry Sanders to become fire chief, replacing Jeff Bowman, who resigned June 1 in frustration at the city’s chronic under-funding of the Fire Department.
Jarman, 50, a 22-year veteran of the department, had been an assistant chief since 2003. If confirmed by the City Council, she would become only the second woman to head a major metropolitan fire department in the U.S.
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