Jeff Macko is looking forward to fishing.
The 64-year-old former Cary Fire Protection District chief retired Friday, leaving behind him a 45-year career that allowed him to work many years alongside his father.
“It hasn’t hit me yet,” Macko told the Northwest Herald the day before his retirement. “I’m going to take a little time and see where I’m at. I’ve got a lot of stuff planned.”
Those plans include Florida for a week with his wife, a wedding in St. Croix and extended fishing trips in Alaska and Canada.
Macko joined the fire department in 1973 and became chief in 2000, when his father, Lester Macko, retired, leaving open a job his son would take for the next 19 years.