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New Tucson Chief
Deputy Chief Richard M. Moreno has been promoted to chief of the Tucson Fire Department. He succeeds E. Dean Holland, who has taken an executive job with an oil company.
Moreno has been with the department for 22 years, and has held all positions within the department. He was most recently in charge of resources and prevention for almost four years, and served on the faculty of the United States Fire Academy. He has instituted executive development and minority recruitment as well as programs, the regional fire academy concept and the development of a county-wide hazardous materials task force.
Droneburg Instructor at MFRI
John W. Droneburg III has been named instructor of the industrial training program at the Maryland Fire and Rescue Institute. He will be responsible for designing and implementing emergency services training programs for industry, according to John W. Hoglund, director of the institute.
Droneburg has been an MFRI field instructor in fire and rescue for several years, and has been chief of United Steam Fire Engine Company No. 3, in Frederick for five years. Formerly, he was with M.A. Bioproducts in Walkersville.
New Anchorage Chiefs
Robert W. Howell has been selected as chief of the Municipality of Anchorage’s Fire Department, the largest in Alaska. Howell was promoted from deputy chief of the 276-member department.
He has 34 years of fire fighting experience, 27 as a chief officer. As an officer, he spent 10 years in Turkey at military installations. He is a member of the ISFSI.
Replacing Howell as deputy chief is James R. Evans, who was chief of fire training since 1975, and before then assistant fire chief in the Anchorage Borough Fire Department. Evans was chief of training when the Regional Fire Training Center was constructed in Anchorage. He is the program director of the fire science program at Anchorage Community College as well as a member of the ISFSI and was president of the Alaska Fire Chiefs Association in 1980 and 1981.
