Kenny Hannon was a member of the Moultrie Fire Department for 40 years and fire chief for 28 of those years.
Now, he has retired and has time to reflect on what has been a great career.
Hannon joined the Moultrie Fire Department in 1978 as a firefighter. After that he didn’t look back, getting promotions and recognition for his outstanding work. He worked his way up the ladder and eventually became fire chief in 1990.
As fire chief, Hannon accomplished a slew of things — getting more than $863,000 in grant funds to help the fire department get new equipment, assisting law enforcement in solving the arson-murder Chastain case, a case that originally took place in 1979 and was re-opened in 1989, foiling a $300,000 insurance fraud scheme and being named the Georgia Fire Chief Of the Year in 2011.