Travis Hots, the Arlington Heights fire chief who became well-known during the Oso slide disaster, said today that he is resigning from that post.
He gave his 90-day notice, letting the fire commissioners there know they'll need to find a new chief.
Hots is also the fire chief for District 22 in Getchell. Those fire commissioners decided Monday night that they wanted Hots to serve as their chief exclusively.
That came about after a highly contested meeting regarding a proposed Regional Fire Authority.
Fire Districts 19 in Silvana, 21 in Arlington Heights and 22 in Getchell were discussing forming an RFA. But when much of the crowd objected to the RFA, and getting away from the use of volunteer firefighters, District 22 decided to step away from an RFA.
"The decision was made to focus exclusively on our own issues," Hots said. "There's so much resistance in Arlington Heights to the idea of an RFA that our commissioners felt it would be difficult to pass it at this juncture. And as long as we're not going to be part of their plans for an RFA, the commissioners didn't want to share me with Arlington Heights as their chief."