By Kirby Neumann-Rea • Of the News-Register • 

Interim chief appointed to embattled fire district

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Ferguson

This is so silly. The district is not "embattled". The Chief by his own admission misused credit cards for fuel. As any reasonable Board of Directors should do, they have brought in an outside investigator to review the situation and determine if they have the whole picture or not. Once the results of that review are completed, then they may or may not take additional action. The objective here should be a thorough and comprehensive review. If the Chief is in the clear, I'm sure he'll cooperate with the investigator. The district is dealing with a personnel issue - period. Those cannot be discussed openly while in process and even some of the findings cannot be discussed. Community members need to chill and await the investigators findings and subsequent board action after that. The facts will determine the proper action to take at the appropriate time.

Patches1

Correct me if I am wrong, but I think at most Fire Districts, The Fire Chief is on call 24/7. This means, that these Chiefs either use the company vehicle or personal vehicle to the call. Each months, these Chiefs are reimbursed for ALL of their personal fuel PLUS their milage IF, they had to use their personal to get to the call. So, if the Yamhill Fire District has not been doing this for this Chief, they owe him back a LOT of money.

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