Department Personnel
STAFFING:
1 Full time career Chief
2 Part time, paid Assistant Chiefs
3 Full time career Captain/EMT's
2 Full time, career Engineer/EMT's
1 Full time Engineer/Paramedic
1 Volunteer Engineer/Paramedic
2 Volunteer Engineer/EMT's
9 Volunteer Firefighter/EMT's
1 Part time Secretary/Board Clerk
1 Part time Accountant
The Garden Valley Fire Protection District is staffed at all times, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year by a minimum of 2 career personnel. Each one of the three shifts has a Captain and an Engineer assigned to it. The Garden Valley Fire Protection District career firefighters work a 48 hour on, 96 hour off schedule. The Fire Chief and/or the Assistant Chiefs respond to emergency dispatches with the career staff. Volunteer personnel respond to emergency dispatches when they are available to provide additional resources. Automatic mutual aid is provided by the Georgetown Fire Department, El Dorado County Fire Protection District, Cal Fire and the US Forest Service depending on the location and type of call. The Garden Valley Fire Protection District provides automatic mutual aid to these agencies in return. Dispatching is done through the Interagency Emergency Command Center located at the Camino El-Dorado/Amador unit Cal Fire headquarters
Officers:
| Radio identifier: | Rank: | Name: |
| 7300 | Fire Chief | Bill Dekker |
| 7301 | Assistant Chief | Robert Bement |
| 7302 | Assistant Chief | Linda Szczepanik |
| 7311 | Captain/EMT, A shift | Jeff Burch |
| 7327 | Captain/EMT (acting), C shift | Charles Frost |
| 7329 | Engineer/EMT, A shift | Mike Braziel |
| 7324 | Acting Captain/Eng. Paramedic B shift | Wes Norman |
| 7321 | Engineer/Paramedic, Volunteer | Corrine Staves |
| 7325 | Engineer/EMT, Volunteer | Steve Horvath |
Board of Directors:
Rick Nelson, Chairman
Frank Clark, Vice-Chairman
Karen Smith, Member
Dave Souza, Secretary
Richard Smith, Member
Norma “Jo” Cleaver, Board Clerk
