Oswego City Fire Department Chief Randy Griffin will retire on Friday after decades of service to upstate communities including DeWitt and Fayetteville.
“We need fresh ideas, new people,” Griffin said. “It’s time for those people to step into their roles and share their vision.”
Griffin first came to the city as a political science student at SUNY Oswego. His began his career in fire services in 1988 as a volunteer firefighter for OFD while he was in college. He said at this point he planned on being a lawyer, but “caught the bug” of being a firefighter, and loved supporting the community, which shifted his goals.
“(I) really enjoyed fire service and helping people,” Griffin said. “You can see the results of what you did in the immediate aftermath.”
Out of college, Griffin worked for Eastern Paramedics out of Syracuse where he hoped “to gain experience as a paramedic.”