STOW, Mass. (WWLP)– The Massachusetts Firefighting Academy’s Chief Fire Officer Management Training Program held their graduation on Friday.
Thirty-seven fire service leaders from across the state, including several from western Massachusetts, completed the four month management development course designed for Chiefs, chief officer candidates, and rising officers. The training includes human resource management, ethics, executive leadership, governmental and organization structures, information management, customer-focused strategic planning, legal issues, budgets and public finance, community awareness, and labor relations.
The program is delivered jointly by the Massachusetts Firefighting Academy and the University of Massachusetts Edward J. Collins Jr. Center for Public Management, and is tuition-free.
The 2022-2023 graduating class list:
- Deputy Chief Daniel Baldwin Westport Fire Department
- Chief Christopher Beal Barnstable Fire Department
- Deputy Chief Kevin Benson Easthampton Fire Department
- Chief William Bernat Palmer Fire Department
- Deputy Chief Michael Caddell Newton Fire Department
- Chief Christopher Coleman North Attleboro Fire Department
- Chief Timothy Collins Truro Fire Department
- Captain Jeffrey Cuozzo Halifax Fire Department
- Chief David DeStefano Belmont Fire Department
- Chief Michael Dutcher Framingham Fire Department
- Chief Thomas Farland Acushnet Fire & EMS Department
- Deputy Chief Michael Fasolino Medway Fire Department
- Deputy Chief Frederick Freeman Hanover Fire Department
- Deputy Chief Paul Guttadauro Tewksbury Fire Department
- Chief Timothy Howe Oakham Fire Department
- Chief John Kadlewicz Holyoke Fire Department
- Deputy Chief Stephen Kennedy Billerica Fire Department
- Chief Richard Lapierre West Brookfield Fire Department
- Captain Angela Lawless Maynard Fire Department
- Deputy Chief Sabato LoRusso Everett Fire Department
- Chief Sandra Lowery Seekonk Fire Department
- Deputy Chief David Martell Sturbridge Fire Department
- Chief Eric Mathieu Grafton Fire Department
- Deputy Chief Edward McGarry Chelsea Fire Department
- Deputy Chief Brian Medeiros New Bedford Fire Department
- Chief Dennis Nazzaro Pelham Fire Department
- Chief Michael O’Brien Lakeville Fire Department
- Chief Michael O’Neill Granby Fire Department
- Deputy Chief Lee Prentiss Ipswich Fire Department
- Chief Edward Renauld Russell Fire Department
- Deputy Chief Adam Roche Worcester Fire Department
- Deputy Chief Graham Rowe North Andover Fire Department
- Deputy Chief John Schlatz Bridgewater Fire Department
- Deputy Chief Mark Storie Hyannis Fire Department
- Chief Dante Suarez Fitchburg Fire Department
- Deputy Chief David Toto Methuen Fire Department
- Chief Scott Turner Three Rivers Fire Department