When Jeff Meston came out of "retirement" to serve as South Lake Tahoe's fire chief in 2013, he had two looming questions he hoped to answer.
The first: could he still work hard? The second: could he do a good job?
Meston knows the answer to the first question.
The second one will take some time to answer.
"Yes, I can work hard," Meston said in his mostly cleaned out office in fire station No. 3. "I still don't have an answer as to whether I did a good job or not. I won't know the answer to that until I'm gone."
Meston's last official day on the job is Feb. 28, marking about four months more than the five years he intended to serve in the role.