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She brings nearly three decades of experience to the job and says that among her priorities is modernizing the agency’s aging fleet of vehicles
By Ron Fink | 4:00 p.m. The Lompoc City Fire Department will welcome a new fire chief next month. Alicia Welch is not a newcomer to the fire service, having an impressive record of more than 30 years of experience in her craft. Press reports accurately note she is the city’s first female fire chief, however she isn’t the first female chief officer in our city’s Fire Department. One of the battalion chiefs is a woman, and has been with the Fire Department for more than a decade. A Noozhawk report on Welch’s selection as the new chief noted, “She will arrive to a depart...
By Janene Scully, Noozhawk North County Editor | @JaneneScully May 12, 2021 | 8:13 p.m. Eighteen years after giving up an engineering career and getting hired as a firefighter, Todd Tuggle has been chosen to lead the Santa Maria Fire Department. Todd Tuggle On Wednesday, City Manager Jason Stilwell announced that he had named Tuggle as fire chief, effective last Saturday. A badge-pinning ceremony is scheduled during the City Council meeting on Tuesday. It’s a different career than Tuggle had after graduating from Cal Poly in 1996 with an engineering degree, but he hasn’t looked b...