The Tuolumne-Calaveras Unit of Cal Fire has announced the retirement of Mike Noonan as unit chief, effective July 2011. Brian Kirk was named unit chief and started Aug. 1.
Kirk has more than 29 years of fire service experience. He began his career in El Dorado County in 1982 as a volunteer firefighter at the Cameron Park Fire Department. He then worked as a firefighter, fire apparatus engineer, captain paramedic and fire marshal for Cameron Park when he started with Cal Fire through a cooperative fire protection agreement.
He has held battalion chief positions in the Camino Emergency Command Center and Amador County. Until this appointment, Kirk was the assistant chief for the Amador-El Dorado-Sacramento-Alpine Unit’s Southern Division in Amador County.
Kirk has held positions on several Cal Fire incident command teams, most recently as incident commander on Cal Fire Team 4. He has also held the position of Cal Fire’s computer-aided dispatch project manager, where he earned the Directors Innovation Award.
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