WORCESTER (Telegram & Gazette) — Deputy Fire Chief of Operations John F. Sullivan announced Tuesday that he is leaving the department after more than 30 years to lead the Brookline Fire Department.
The deputy chief, who will start as chief in Brookline March 26, has served for eight years in his current post, and been present at some of the seminal moments in department history.
As a lieutenant, he groped through the smoky darkness of the Cold Storage and Warehouse Co. on Dec. 3, 1999, searching for two of the six firefighters that perished that evening.
