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JOHN M. MALECKY was promoted to the rank of battalion chief with the Bayonne (NJ) Fire Department. He has been writing the Apparatus Deliveries column for Fire Engineering since 1984. He joined the Bayonne Fire Department as a firefighter in 1970 and was made a lieutenant in 1987 and a captain in 1994. He is a certified EMT and fire inspector.

FRED C. WINDISCH was named fire marshal for Harris County, Texas. Windisch is chief of the Ponderosa Volunteer Fire Department, located in the northern Harris County. The fire marshal’s office has been renamed the Harris County Fire and Emergency Services Department and is responsible for planning and coordinating fire prevention and control services in the unincorporated areas of the county, investigating arson, and assisting 29 full-time volunteer fire departments. Windisch will oversee the construction of a new fire service training academy for the area. He is a former chairman of the Volunteer Chief Officers Section of the International Association of Fire Chiefs.

CHARLES M. MYERS was named deputy chief of the North Shore Fire Department in Brown Deer, Wisconsin. Since 1997, he has headed the fire science program at Wisconsin Indianhead Technical College in Ashland, working with more than 50 area career and volunteer fire departments providing basic through advanced fire, emergency medical service, haz-mat, specialized rescue, and counterterrorism training. Prior to that, he spent 20 years with the United States Air Force, attaining the rank of deputy chief.

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