NEWS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE PAT A. DENNEN
Fire Chief
County Fire Warden
DATE: February 16, 2007
CONTACT: Tracey Martinez, Public Information Officer
(909) 386-8408, 800-426-8689, pager #3307
County Fire Employees To Be Honored
Date/Time: Tues., February 20th, 10 a.m.
Location: Immanuel Baptist Church
28355 East Baseline, Highland
You are invited to join us for a promotion and service pin ceremony being held at the Immanuel Baptist Church
on February 20th. We will be honoring and presenting the following with their promotional helmet and badge:
Deputy Chief: Dan Wurl
Assistant Chief: Peter Brierty, Tim Sappok
Battalion Chief: Gary Benedict, Ron Walls
Captain: Stewart Anderson, David Breskin, Robert Cox, Darrell Crane, Michael Frieling, David Groat,
Kenneth Halseth, Bret Henry, Shawn Millerick, Michael O’Bier, Roger Saindon, Douglas Simpson, Mathew
Smerber, Craig Smith, Joshua Wilkins
Engineer: Steven Aguirre, Matthew Anderson, Jason Bernatene, Mark Bixler, Derek Blenkarn, Scott
Brownlie, Carlos Canizales, Kelly Carter, Dino DeMarco, Chris Gorman, Jay Hausman, Armando Hernandez,
Gary Jager Jr., Mark Machal, Robert Mack, Scott Michaels, Ted Mohr, Jade Morgan, Mark Murphy, Matthew
Nielson, Steven Roeber, Jonathan Sorenson, Michael Taylor, William Villarino, Craig Williams, Erik Wright
Limited Term Firefighter/Paid-Call Firefighter to Firefighter Paramedic: Kathryn Funkhouser, Michael
Gregory, Jason McLaughlin, Eric Spies
Paid-Call Firefighter to Limited Term Firefighter: Mark Blinsmon, Kyle Chaffee, Matthew Gotta, Jay
Jolley, Michael Laabs, Peter McKernan, Jesse Vasquez, Kenneth White
Office of the Fire Marshal: Keith Stout, Senior Plans Examiner; Brian Headley, Fire Prevention Specialist;
Karl VonOesen, Fire Prevention Specialist; Jonee Sanchez, Front Counter Technician; Susan Williams,
Supervising Environmental Health Specialist
The following individuals have recently joined County Fire and will be presented with their badge:
Leigh Overton, EMS Supervisor; Leslie Parham, EMS Nurse Educator; Adam Panos, Fire Prevention Supv.;
Neal Mansilla, Fire Prevention Specialist; Fire Prevention Officers Mike Cary, Alvin Cuna, Catherine Iglesias,
Hazardous Materials Specialist Shane Barbao
The following individuals will be honored and presented with service pins for their years of dedicated service to
the County of San Bernardino:
30 Years Sue Hood, Ed Keen, Dean McLaughlin, Hyla Palmese, Frederick Roy, Terry Welsh
25 Years Craig Corbin, Secundino Vargas, Jerry Wong
20 Years Curtis Brundage, Ernest Garcia, Lynda Luna, John McGarvey, Brian Otter, Vincent
Piccoli, Gregory Sears
15 Years Liz Clymer, Michael Johnson, Tom Pitts, Steven Roeber, John Schwab, William Smith,
Icilda Wallace, Steven Wright
10 Years Angie Franco, Lisa Gomez, Brian Headley, Julianna Heggenberg, Steven King, Steve
Lasiter, Larry LaVogue, Steven Lehnhard, Christopher Nichols, Mike O'Bier, Yvonne
Robbins, KaSandra Shaw, John Simpson, Rich Solometo, Kathleen Williamson
5 Years Kyle Adcock, Juliana Baca, James Barber, Melissa Beeson, Mikhail Boiarski, Mark
Bradford, Stephen Bratt, Carlos Canizales, Timothy Cole, Erin Cooper, Brian Craven,
Shawn Dodson, Donald Dombrowski, Aaron Feenstra, Jeromie Gaeta, Chuck Gammett,
Ramon Garcia, Raul Gil, Marcus Golding, Kyle Hauducoeur, Matthew Helmkamp, Peter
Horne, Bryan Hoverman, Jesus Islas, Aaron Kendall, Kellie Kuhn, Kory Layton, John
Lazette, Brenda MacGregor, Benjamin Magee, Curtis Markloff, Cara Martin, Garrett
Miller, Maria Molina, Jade Morgan, Daniel Opbroek, Marc Peebles, Melissa Pierce,
Leticia Prieto, Tomas Ramires, Steven Reseigh, Shane Riel, Otto Schramm, Joshua
Scruggs, Robert Smith, Jonathan Sorensen, Paul Summers, Jackie Trotter, Michael Tyser,
Thomas Wellman, Michael Westfall, Jessie Williams
We hope you can join us for this special event.
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