Lakewood Fire Chief hands over Reigns To Incoming Fire Chief Todd Stark

good morning everyone my name is rodney humans i'm the chief of lakewood fire department and uh pretty soon i will be uh ending my term as chief of the lakewood fire department and sitting beside me is first assistant chief todd stark and he will be the chief in coming and along with assistant chief steve mcnamara and assistant chief michael j delia we'll be serving the citizens of lakewood township representing the lakewood fire department i want to thank everyone for their cooperation and support and on behalf of my family i from the bottom of my heart i really appreciate the work that the lakewood scoop has done to uh you know cover uh several events and um fire scenes and uh responses that the liquid fire department and the assisting agencies have done in service to lakewood township and once again i want to say thank you and all the best to everyone good morning my name is todd stark and i currently serve as the first assistant chief of the lakewood fire department and as of tomorrow november 14th current chief rodney humans will finish his term up as our active chief and i will transition into the role of chief of the lakewood fire department and i just am looking forward to a very seamless transition um learned much from uh chief yeomans and his predecessors and uh feeling very prepared to uh take on the role uh as chief of lakewood fire department so i just look forward to uh serving the community uh in the additional capacity of chief of the department as a great honor as there's a time-tested tradition for volunteerism in the lakewood fire department and i'm very proud and honored to be able to uh gain the role of chief of the department uh we have a fantastic staff of volunteers out there at the ready uh at any time of day and night to um you know answer the calls as as we are needed um i just again would like to uh just put out a big thank you to uh chief yeomans for all that he's done for the township of lakewood the lakewood fire department and the community of lakewood uh in the the past six years as he went from second assistant first assistant to chief uh he's been an outstanding uh role model for me and uh how i'd like to continue and just uh we're looking forward to continuing uh myself as chief first assistant chief will be uh steve mcnamara and we have an incoming second assistant chief which will be michael j deleo jr and we just look forward again to uh continuing to serve the community of lakewood and just doing the the job the best we can to serve the citizens and the township of lakewood and just continue the time and honor tradition of the lakewood volunteer fire department we want to again thank you for the support of everyone in the town that we've had and just wish for the continued support um we want to just uh be a safe and very proactive department and uh again would just like to uh echo chief yeoman's comments and uh just thank uh the lakewood scoop for the coverage the great coverage actually that they do uh for us on the fire scenes um and the other events and and just getting out messages for us in the department and we just know that we will look forward to a continued great relationship there and getting information out to the public and just continuing to convey safety messages and just ongoing and upcoming events for the town thank you very much and i just look forward to serving in this capacity thank you chief thank you