South County Fire announced Tuesday that Fire Commissioner Richard T. Schrock passed away Sunday, May 12 after a battle with cancer.
He was 75 years old.
Mr. Schrock served as a fire commissioner in South Snohomish County for more than eight years. He was appointed in October 2010 to fill a vacancy on the Snohomish County Fire District 1 Board of Commissioners and was elected by voters the following year to his first six-year term. He was re-elected in 2015.
He served on the Regional Fire Authority Planning Committee and helped draft the plan approved by voters in 2017 to combine Fire District 1 and the Lynnwood Fire Department to form South County Fire, a regional fire authority serving all of South Snohomish County. When the new organization was established on Oct. 1, 2017, Commissioner Schrock, along with other members of the Fire District 1 Board, joined the South County Fire Board of Commissioners.