Press Announcement: City of Sand Springs

CITY OF SAND SPRINGS

Sand Springs Deputy Fire Chief

Selected For Leadership Program

Contact: Grant Gerondale Community Development Director

City of Sand Springs Deputy Fire Chief Justin Hall has been selected into 2020 Fire Service Executive Development Institute. The International Association of Fire Chiefs (IAFC) announced that Chief Hall successfully competed with new fire chiefs and chief officers from across the country and Canada to become a member of the 2020 cohort program.

Along with being accepted into the program Chief Hall has been awarded a scholarship which covers many of the expenses Associated with attending the program.

The Fire Service Executive Development Institute is a yearlong leadership-development program created and implemented by the IAFC to provide new and aspiring chiefs with the tools they need to have successful and productive tenures. The members of the cohort will meet in March 2020 for their first five-day session in addition to two other sessions scheduled six months apart. The group will communicate between sessions using an online community.

This is the eighth year that the Motorola Solutions Foundation has provided the IAFC with a grant to fund the program. “The Motorola Solutions Foundation is proud to support the training and development of emerging leaders in fire and emergency service to ensure they have the tools needed to best serve the community”, said Monica Mueller, executive director Motorola Solutions Foundation.

Deputy Chief Hall began in the fire service 25 years ago as a volunteer. In 2001, he became a paid fire fighter for the Catoosa Fire Department. In 2005, he joined the Sand Springs Fire Department where he served as both vice-president and president of the union, and was selected to serve as the deputy fire chief in 2011. Chief Hall holds an Associates of Arts Degree from Rogers State College, and an Associates of Science Degree in Fire & Emergency Services from 2 Tulsa Community College. He is currently working to complete a Bachelor of Science Degree in Fire Administration from Columbia Southern University.

“I have encouraged Justin to seek out training and professional development to enhance his skills as a chief officer,” said Fire Chief Mike Wood. “Justin presented the FSEDI opportunity to me and we both agreed that his participation would be invaluable for himself and the department as well. We appreciate that he was selected for this great program.”

Congratulations to this year’s cohort of emerging fire and emergency service leaders," said Chief Gary Ludwig, IAFC president and chairperson of the board. “The IAFC's Fire Service Executive Development Program has become the premier career- and leadership-development program in our profession thanks to the generous support of the Motorola Solutions Foundation. Many officers from the previous programs have been successful in achieving fire chief positions and are effectively leading their departments.”