When West Carrollton officials asked voters to approve a 5-year renewable 3.9-mill fire levy, they said one of the reasons for wanting to do so was to expand fire department staffing. On Tuesday, a year after that $672,000 levy was approved, full-time firefighter/paramedics Dennis Mays, Kyle Norman, Michael VanSkoyck and Mikayla Zonker took the oath of office during a regularly scheduled city council meeting,
All four firefighters come from within the department and have served on a part-time basis for the fire department for between 18 months to seven years, according to Heidi Van Antwerp, the city’s spokeswoman. “One of the benefits that we have in our department is that we can groom people to be our next career people,” said West Carrollton Fire Chief Chris Barnett.
All four firefighter/paramedics officially started in their full-time roles March 15.