{"id":109744,"date":"2022-08-01T08:49:40","date_gmt":"2022-08-01T15:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/?p=109744"},"modified":"2022-08-01T12:51:40","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T19:51:40","slug":"anthony-marrone-begins-service-as-la-county-acting-fire-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2022\/08\/01\/anthony-marrone-begins-service-as-la-county-acting-fire-chief\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Marrone begins service as LA County acting fire chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_109745\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-109745\" style=\"width: 605px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Anthony-Marrone-LACo-Fire-Dept-Chief-2022.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-109745\" src=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Anthony-Marrone-LACo-Fire-Dept-Chief-2022.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"605\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Anthony-Marrone-LACo-Fire-Dept-Chief-2022.jpg 605w, https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Anthony-Marrone-LACo-Fire-Dept-Chief-2022-300x266.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 605px) 100vw, 605px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-109745\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anthony Marrone [Image via LA County Fire Department.]<\/figcaption><\/figure><strong>Anthony Marron<\/strong>e began duties on Monday, Aug. 1, as the Acting Los Angeles County Fire Department Chief, following the retirement of <strong>Daryl L. Osby<\/strong> as the agency&#8217;s top leader.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;During this transition phase, I thank the Board of Supervisors for selecting me and entrusting me to continue our department&#8217;s mission of protecting lives, the environment and property,&#8221; Marrone said.<\/p>\n<p>Marrone, a 36-year veteran, previously served as the department&#8217;s acting chief during Osby&#8217;s leave of absence in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>The county fire department operates out of 177 fire stations, with more than 5,000 emergency responders and business professionals operating within an annual budget of $1.4 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Also, the fire department provides ocean lifeguard, 9-1-1 dispatch, health hazardous materials, and forestry services throughout the county.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s one of the largest fire departments in the world, providing traditional and non-traditional fire and life safety services to more than 4 million residents and communities in 60 cities and 122 unincorporated areas within its 2,311-square-mile service area.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anthony Marrone began duties on Monday, Aug. 1, as the Acting Los Angeles County Fire Department Chief, following the retirement of Daryl L. Osby as the agency&#8217;s top leader. &#8220;During this transition phase, I thank the Board of Supervisors for selecting me and entrusting me to continue our department&#8217;s mission of protecting lives, the environment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":109745,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1499,1496],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109744"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109744"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109746,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109744\/revisions\/109746"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}