Issue 21-2
LOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT - OPERATIONS VALLEY BUREAU
April—May—-June
CHIEF’S MESSAGE COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP – WE ARE IN THIS TOGETHER NO ONE COULD HAVE FORESEEN WHAT A PANDEMIC WOULD DO
BUREAU COMMANDER DEPUTY CHIEF Trevor Richmond ASSISTANT BUREAU COMMANDERS ASSISTANT CHIEF GUY TOMLINSON Corey Rose Patrick Butler John Drake TRAINING OFFICER CAPTAIN II Ben Culp EMS/RESILIENCE OFFICER CAPTAIN I Justin Clayton EMS EDUCATOR Bob Heaton MANAGEMENT ANALYST II Sol Lopez SECRETARY Emma Garcia
TO OUR COMMUNITY AND HOW OUR WORLD WOULD SEEMINGLY BE TURNED UPSIDE DOWN IN THE MATTER OF A COUPLE OF MONTHS. OVER THE LAST YEAR WE HAVE STRUGGLED TOGETHER AS A COMMUNITY TO KEEP EACH OTHER SAFE AND FOUGHT TO MAKE SENSE OF THIS UNFAMILIAR ENVIRONMENT. WE MUST UNDERSTAND THAT OUR ENVIRONMENT IS CONSTANTLY CHANGING. WHETHER IT IS THE RESULT OF THE WEATHER, A PANDEMIC OR THE POLITICAL ENVIRONMENT, WE CAN BE ASSURED THAT OUR ENVIRONMENT IS IN A CONSTANT STATE OF EVOLUTION AND OUR SUCCESS WILL ULTIMATELY BE DETERMINED BY OUR COLLECTIVE UNRELENTING SPIRIT TO ADAPT TO THOSE CHANGES. THE LOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT RELIES ON OUR COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP TO ASSIST US THROUGH THESE CHANGES AND BUILD RESILIENT STRATEGIES THAT ADAPT TO OUR CIRCUMSTANCES. WE SIMPLY CANNOT DO THIS WITHOUT YOU AND TOGETHER WE ARE STRONGER. COMMUNITY LEADERS DO NOT NECESSARILY NEED TO CONFORM TO A FORMAL LEADERSHIP ROLE BUT CAN COME FROM ANYWHERE IN THE COMMUNITY. BY BEING PREPARED TO ADAPT, YOU ARE ASSISTING THE WHOLE COMMUNITY. THE LOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT WILL ALWAYS CONTINUE TO MAKE PUBLIC SERVICE OUR NUMBER ONE PRIORITY. YOUR SAFETY AND THE PROTECTION OF YOUR PROPERTY, REGARDLESS OF YOUR CULTURAL BACKGROUND, ETHNICITY OR SOCIETAL STATUS, WILL ALWAYS BE THE STANDARD BY WHICH WE EXIST. THERE IS NEVER A DISTINCTION MADE IN WHO WE HELP AND WHO WE DON’T. WHEN ANYONE IN THE COMMUNITY CALLS 911, YOU CAN BE ASSURED THAT HIGHLY TRAINED FIREFIGHTERS AND PARAMEDICS ARE ON THEIR WAY TO HELP YOU.
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