“I was driving to calls before I knew anything else about it,” he says. “But it just progressed from there and I immersed myself in it, the first couple of years especially.”
He says it was also a way to give back to the community.
“I had a business here and was looking for a way to give back and that was a good way of doing it.”
Being self-employed meant he could also be on call during the day.
He says he thinks he and Dale will make a good team.
“We had a bit of time [working together] when [former chief] Glenn [Williams] was away for a few weeks and it worked pretty well, and we’d bounce ideas off each other.”
“It’s a pretty good dynamic,” says Dale.