By NICK GOSNELL
Hutch Post
HUTCHINSON, Kan. — Hutchinson Fire Chief Steve Beer said they've promoted their new Fire Marshal.
"Mike Cain, which was under Tony, I promoted him last week to the new Fire Marshal position," Beer said. "Mike's position, inspector, fire investigator, I did hire a person for that position already, so that position is filled. That gentleman starts here, right after the first of the year."
The Fire Marshal in a city Hutchinson's size has a lot of duties.
"He probably wears seven different hats for this community," Beer said. "Each and every day they come and work and get thrown into seven different directions. A lot of their stuff is site plans, they are all reviewed. We're working with all kinds of data that they have to do reports. They do all the state reports for anything with arson. They work with the police department detectives on cases. They are just thrown into a vast array and on top of that, all the 2800 fire inspections that have to be done throughout the city. They get thrown in and then in the middle of the night, they get called in at 2 a.m., 3 a.m. to investigate a fire, or any time of the day."
Current Fire Marshal Tony Arpin is retiring at the end of 2021.
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