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Ray Charles, shown here in an OBSERVER file photo, passed away this week. He was 92. Charles was Sacramento’s first Black fire chief.
Raymond J. Charles didn’t initially envision a career with the Sacramento Fire Department and was talked into completing an application by friends. He applied himself and would go on to rise through the ranks and become the city’s first African American fire chief. There have only ever been two others since. The pioneering civil servant died on December 15. He was 92.
Charles was born in New Orleans, Louisiana on June 23, 1928 to parents Philip and Irene Charles. The family moved to the Oak Park area of Sacramento in 1942. Ray Charles graduated from C.K. McClatchy High School. ....

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