Ocean Shores again is searching for a new fire chief, following the resignation of Chief Thomas Lique.
“We wish Tom the best in his new endeavors. The city will be seeking a new Fire Chief over the next few months,” Mayor Crystal Dingler said in a statement.
Lique was hired in June 2014 after serving his entire career prior to that with the Key Peninsula Fire Department. At the time Ocean Shores hired Lique, he had resigned as chief of the Key Peninsula department six months earlier.
Dingler has appointed Fire Capt. Brian J. Ritter as interim assistant fire chief effective Jan. 1, while the search for a new chief takes place.
Ritter was hired into the department in 2004. He was promoted to lieutenant in 2008, then to Captain in 2011.