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Hanover Park s new fire chief sworn in Eric Fors
Updated 7/7/2021 6:12 PM
Hanover Park s new fire chief, Eric Fors, has started his new job the culmination of a career that so far has spanned 24 years.
Fors began his firefighting career in Hanover Park in 1997 as a 19-year-old part-timer.
In 2001 he was brought on as a full-time firefighter/paramedic, one of the first three hired by the village.
He was promoted to lieutenant in 2008, battalion chief in 2011 and assistant chief in 2016.
In early June of this year, the village announced he would be named chief. Fors was sworn in at the June 17 board meeting.
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Tim Dupin thought or at least hoped that Missouri firefighters, paramedics and other emergency medical services personnel would be among the first to get vaccinated against the coronavirus.
After months of feeling overlooked by elected leaders in the distribution of safety equipment and other resources, surely, Dupin thought, their role on the front line of the medical system would be recognized. They had, throughout the pandemic, responded to calls the way they always had: Without regard to whom or what they would encounter at the scene, interacting with people who could have the coronavirus, despite often having makeshift personal protective equipment and masks that were old, faulty or moldy.
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