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Chief fire officer begins year-long posting

Chief fire officer begins year-long posting

Chief Fire Officer Paul Walker

(CNS): The new interim chief fire officer, who has come to Cayman from the UK, has begun his year-long posting at the Cayman Islands Fire Service, where he is expected to find a Caymanian replacement for himself before the end of his contract. Paul Walker, who started work two weeks ago, has already met the fire officers at all five fire stations across the three…

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Caymanians appointed as deputy fire chiefs

Caymanians appointed as deputy fire chiefs

New Deputy Chief Fire Officers (L-R) Brevon Elliot, Tina Choy and Roy Charlton (CLICK TO ENLARGE)

(CNS): Three Caymanians have been appointed as deputy chief fire officers after what officials said was a rigorous open recruitment exercise. Following significant concerns in recent years that the Cayman Islands Fire Service management had failed when it came to succession planning for local fire…

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Brac officer steps in as acting fire boss

Brac officer steps in as acting fire boss

Fire Service Divisional Officer Witney Tatum receives the civil service Employee of the Month Award in 2015 from Deputy Governor Franz Manderson

(CNS): Divisional Officer Witney Tatum, from the Cayman Brac Fire Station, has been appointed as the acting chief fire officer, ministry officials confirmed Friday, the day after David Hails departed the job. Government is currently in the process of…

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Fire chief to depart with cash windfall

Fire chief to depart with cash windfall

Chief Fire Officer David Hails with the premier

(CNS): Chief Fire Officer David Hails will be leaving his post tomorrow after receiving what is understood to be a significant cash windfall last year for comp-time and vacation back-pay that he had accrued over his contract period. His departure only came to public attention recently after his post was advertised in the print media and members of…

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Airport fire crew under safety breach probe

Airport fire crew under safety breach probe

(CNS): A leaked internal memo from the Cayman Islands Chief Fire Officer David Hails to home affairs ministry bosses and the Cayman Islands Airports Authority has revealed that insufficiently qualified fire officers as well as one who was injured and walking with a cane made up an enhanced fire shift request from air traffic control last month and that documents were falsified to cover it up, in…

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Fire crews monitor challenging quarry fire

Fire crews monitor challenging quarry fire

Chief Fire Officer David Hails

(CNS): The Cayman Islands Fire Service has been keeping watch on another smouldering pile, this time a waste brush fire that ignited at a quarry in Bodden Town this week at the end of Lake Destiny Drive, Bodden Town, on a  site owned by Justin Wood. Alongside the smouldering pile of shredded rubber in South Sound, fire crews have also been spending time at this fire…

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Rubber pile owner installing sprinkler to prevent fire

Rubber pile owner installing sprinkler to prevent fire

Cayman Islands Fire Service applies water to the smoldering piles

(CNS): The Cayman Islands Fire Service said that checks today at the site in South Sound where the mound of shredded rubber tyres is being stored revealed no new signs of smoke or fire. (more…)

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Firefighters deny lack of talent to fill top jobs

Firefighters deny lack of talent to fill top jobs

(CNS): A group of firefighters have said that a recent review of the service by PricewaterhouseCoopers, published last week, that painted a bleak picture over succession planning is misleading. The men and women who are on the front line of the job told CNS that there are many people in the service that have the training, experience, qualifications and skills to take over a number of the top…

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