VIDEO: "I'm able to stand here today and say, 'I am Fire Chief Edwards. I will always place the mission of this division first. I will always be available, and I will always be accessible,'" Fire Chief Shane Edwards said to an excitement-filled room at Macon-Bibb's fire headquarters as he was sworn in as chief Wednesday morning. "I started out as a kid, and like most kids do, looking at the firetruck going down the road, and I always knew that I was going to be in some public safety profession," Edwards said.
What started out as a childhood dream became reality for Edwards, right out of high school.
"1988 -- that's when I was hired by this fire department. The first call I made on engine 104 was when I got off of the truck, and we finished the call that day, it was a medical call, but right then, I knew that I was in the right profession," Chief Edwards said.