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BELEN — Belen Fire Chief Bret Ruff resigned from his position on Friday, May 21, saying he wished things had turned out differently. Ruff had been placed on paid administrative leave on March 29 when city officials became aware that he didn’t have a current New Mexico EMT license. Ruff, who was appointed to the position in February 2019, said he had been working with the state of Nevada to transfer his license but the process had never been completed. Bret Ruff “Part of my contract when I got hired (with the city of Belen) was that I was going to have six months to get EMT licensure transferred,” Ruff said in a telephone interview with the News-Bulletin on Friday. “It was taking longer to get it transferred from Nevada. While trying to rebuild the (Belen Fire) department, I put it on the back burner and it got overlooked.”

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