Erik Holt

And I get full custody of both of my daughters.

So at the time, I think they were like 14 and 10, 11 years old.

It's tough ages.

Yeah.

And it's like, well, it's time to try to be home.

You know, 48 hour shifts aren't super conducive to being a single parent.

So, um,

and found the opportunity implied, you know?

What do they do?

You know, like city chiefs have a lot more political arena stuff where they work with city council and things like that.

My job was kind of, you know, small town fire chief is...

Lead operations, train firefighters, manage budget, and I still responded to every call.

That was kind of my favorite because I didn't have to give up operations.

I just kind of had to change from being on the nozzle or my hand on...

a tourniquet or whatever to like instructing people and running a command role.

Yeah.

Um, but I enjoyed it.

You know, I took a department that was struggling to really operate.

Um, so the metrics I always tell is when I took over, it was like 18 minute response time.

So Andy dials nine to one.