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After serving as a fire
fighter for 25 years, Fire
Department of North I luron
Fire Chief David Sparling is
wrapping it up.
Sparling has been fire
chief for the last three and a
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David Sparling has worked as a fire fighter in Blyth for the past
25 years and was fire chief for the past three and a half years.
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half years and was deputy
chief for the three years
before that.
He has been a fire fighter
for his entire career; he
began this job eight months
after returning to Blyth from
university.
Now, Sparling is taking his
career in a new direction;
he'll be working with his
family, brother Steven Spar -
ling and nephew Grant Spar -
ling, at Cowbell Brewery.
There are several things
Sparling will miss about his
job as a fire chief, including
the personal in his
department.
"It's pretty neat being in
an organization where you
see the difference you make
fairly immediately. I'm
going to miss that," he said.
"Fpr me as chief, I'm no
longer on the scene; it's all
personal on a fire scene. As
a fire chief the last
few years, seeing
my personal in
action and doing
a good job is the
ultimate reward
in a career as a
fire chief."
However what
Sparling won't.
miss is the time
commitment the
job demands.
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Sparling's technical title is
director of fire and emer-
gency services which
entails being fire chief for
the FDNH, community
emergency management
coordinator for North
Huron and principal for the
Emergency Services Train-
ing Centre.
Last year around budget
time, Sparling advised the
North Huron council that
the position was too much
work; he said it was
months more work per
year than a full-time job
should be, and it wasn't
sustainable.
• At that time, council
agreed to have a consultant
review the position. How-
ever though that was
almost a year ago, the con-
sultant's study has yet to
come before council.
"It was getting to a point
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where I had to put my fam-
ily first," said Sparling, who
said all the extra work took
a lot of time away from his
loved ones. "That was a key
driver for me to make this
change."
That consultant's refit
will come before North
Huron council on February
21 with recommended
changes.
Sparling said that after
being in the department for
so long, he is convinced of
the need for shared services
between municipalities.
"When 1 look at the fire
department in particular,
51% of North Huron's fire
department [operates]
through contract service to
neighboring municipali-
ties." About half the work of
the department involves
assisting with incidents in
surrounding
municipalities.
"When you're in that envi-
ronment, it really raises your
awareness of the need to
make shared services work. I
hope there's the political will
to do so."
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