Longtime North Perth fire Chief Ed Smith set to retire

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More than one fire chief over the years told Ed Smith he’ll know when to call it quits.
“(They) said there will be a day you say it’s time, and that day came for me and I reached that decision,” Smith, the longtime North Perth Fire Department chief, said Wednesday after announcing his retirement later this year. “It’s time.”
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Smith’s last day is Oct. 31 and will cap a firefighting career that started 44 years ago when he volunteered at his hometown Elma-Logan department in Monkton. He was a mechanic and one of three recruits at the time, back when locals were preferred because they needed to hear the station’s siren when there was a fire.

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