The Reporter Online
OAK LAWN, Ill. — George Sheets will be going back to being a fire chief in just one community in the coming months.
Fire Chief George Sheets’ double-duty role leading both the Oak Lawn and Chicago Ridge fire departments may be over in a few months, but he and officials in both villages said the arrangement has been successful and no one seems to be in a rush to end it.
Sheets, 51, has been chief of the Oak Lawn Fire Department since 2009 and will continue in that role. The Missouri native began his career in 1981 with the Missouri Fire Service, moving up from firefighter to lieutenant and captain before taking leadership positions in fire departments in Portage and Kalamazoo, Mich. He was chief of fire and EMS services in Beaver Dam, Wis., before coming to Oak Lawn.
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