Amador County – Mayor Connie Gonsalves, Vice Mayor Keith Sweet and Council members Patrick Crew, Wayne Garibaldi, and Marilyn Lewis will go down in history as the first Jackson City Council to have a full-time paid fire chief when the Council gives the oath of office to a new fire chief, a former Portland, Oregon fire district deputy chief.

Jackson last week announced the hiring of its first full-time Fire Chief, Marc Crain, who comes to the city from Oregon, with a 35-year career history in the fire service in which he has held the ranks starting with paramedic firefighter up to Deputy Chief. His most recent position was a Deputy Chief position with Clackamas County Fire District Number 1 in the southeast metropolitan area of Portland, Oregon.

Crain began his career in southern Oregon with the Winston-Dillard Fire District and after 10 years moved to northern Oregon where he continued his career with Hoodland Fire District, City of West Linn Fire Department, City of Milwaukie Fire Department and Clackamas County Fire District Number 1.

In addition to his operational experience, Crain has extensive fire service command and management service. He attended the National Fire Academy and the Oregon Fire Service Administrators Institute.

He is currently a nationally accredited Fire Officer and Fire Instructor and has taught Command and Control courses in the Northwest and Alaska and is a member of the Oregon/California Incident Management Team.

City Manager Mike Daly in a release Friday said “this is the fourth position hired by the city utilizing Measure M funding,” generated from a ¼-cent sales tax that was passed by a county wide vote in 2008. “The City also has one Fire Captain and two Fire Engineer positions already on duty.”

As part of this transition, former Jackson Fire Chief Mark Morton will assume a role as Deputy Fire Chief and is excited about the professional background Chief Crain brings to the Jackson Fire Department.

Crain has immediate family in Turlock and he and his wife are very happy to be out of the rainy northwest. Crain will be officially sworn-in to his new position at the August 22 City Council meeting.

His office will be located at Jackson Fire Station Number 1, located at 175 Main Street.

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