Green announces
2004 appointments
MidTown – Town of Evans NY – December 18, 2004 --- UPDATED 01/05/04
Chief Bruce Green Jr., along with Assistant Chiefs Tim Szczepaniak and Tiger Schmittendorf, has interviewed and appointed the balance of his leadership team for the coming year.
Serving as Fire Lieutenants will be Michael Relosky and Michael Kauzala. Relosky joined the fire department in 2001 and has achieved Advanced Firefighter and Fire Officer 1 certifications. Kauzala has been a firefighter since 1999 and is currently completing his paramedic certification. Both firefighters have served as lieutenants in the past.
Appointed as the company safety officer is Robert Corsi Jr., a firefighter with almost 40 years of experience in the fire company. Corsi served previously as chief of the department and fire marshal for the Town of Evans. He will be responsible for on-scene operations safety and overseeing the company’s safety and injury reduction programs.
Corsi will also act as a training officer along with Assistant Chief Tiger Schmittendorf and the fire captain to be elected at a special membership meeting later this month. Together, they will coordinate and deliver the fire company’s objective based training initiatives.
As part of the line operations re-organization meeting held Saturday-January 4, Green made the following additional appointments.
Assisting in the training division will be Tom Szczepaniak and John Latimore.
Tom is a Fire Protection Specialist with the NYS Office of Fire Prevention & Control's HazMat Bureau and a certified instructor. He will serve as a Training Officer, developing and delivering lesson plans in Evans Center's Objective-Based Training Program.
John Latimore will coordinate the maintenance, upkeep and upgrades to Evans Center's HOT Zone Training Facility. John is a past chief and serves as the fire marshal for the Town of Evans. Latimore is credited with conceiving, creating and building the training facility over 12 years ago.
Laura DeJoy will serve as the Line Clerk, performing data entry for staff training records and distributing information to the firefighters and first responders of the department.
Bob Zamrok will oversee special projects on an as needed basis, assisting the line operations team.
Appointments are still pending for a newly created Sr. Fire Lieutenant's position and an EMS Officer.
The newly appointed officers officially took office January 1, 2004.
