New leadership roles have been filled at the Portage Fire Department. The roles have always been available, but new fire chief Troy Haase filled the position to give the engineers more leadership opportunities.
“It is not going to change much within the department at first. It is a chance to switch from task-oriented work to more individual responsibilities,” Haase said.
Four full-time engineers were promoted in a small ceremony Wednesday at the fire station in Portage. Ryan Armson started with the department as a paid on-call member in 2005 and was promoted to Lieutenant in 2014, hired as full-time engineer last year.
“Today we are here to celebrate his promotion to Inspector-Engineer,” Haase said.