For the first time in 23 years, Avondale is getting a new fire chief.
The West Valley suburb on Monday announced that Jeffrey S. Case was hired as chief of Avondale Fire & Medical, a position he will take over Sept. 2.
Case, who has 34 years of public safety experience, was most recently a deputy chief with the Phoenix Fire Department.
“Avondale is fortunate to have a leader with an impressive career such as Jeffrey Case join the Avondale fire department,” City Manager Charles Montoya said in a press release.
“He has worked his way up the ladder from firefighter and paramedic, to engineer, captain, battalion chief, division chief to deputy chief, serving in that capacity for the last 15 years for the fifth-largest city in the United States.”