Mayor Joe Ganim and Acting Fire Chief Lance Edwards saluted promotions of two dozen fire officials at a City Hall ceremony.
Promotions:
Alberto Hernandez- Fire Marshal
Robert Marrero- Deputy Fire Marshal
Mark Cody- Captain
Lieutenants:
Thomas Varanelli, Thomas Coolidge, Myles Rich, Gregory Prior, Christian A. Teague, Derek Currao, Derek Villiani, Michael Schenk, Kelley Geffert, Daniel Brelsford, Loren Dailey, Patrick Krompinger, Alex Gomez. Marco Barraza
Fire Inspector:
Elizabeth O’Connell, Robert Lopez
Pump Engineer:
Marcos Ramos. James Bonosconi, Jose Torres, Edgard Loyola, James Kozlowski
NEW FIREFIGHTERS
Alexander Poling, Shpresa Bungu-Rivera, Phillip Duncan, Joey Nguyen
Paging Ron Mackey. How many blacks promoted here? How many black females? Quite a few Hispanic last names. Read us your race card, we are tired of waiting.
Lennie, isn’t this old news and could you provide the makeup of those listed by how many women were hired out of the four new firefighters and if they are white, Hispanic and black and the same for all the names listed?