Talk:Fire chief

Merge proposal

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Fire chief and Fire Master are about the same thing, and both are relatively small articles. Merging them seems like a good idea. Jclemens (talk) 23:06, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

I agree. Would Fire chief be an acceptable title for the new article? I'm not sure which is more prevelant around the world, although obviously Fire chief is more often used in the United States. --Daysleeper47 (talk) 13:04, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

I can only speak for the USA, where Fire Chief is the predominant, possibly only, term in use. The Fire Chief article makes it sound like Fire Chief is also in use in the UK. Whichever the article is called, Fire Chief, Chief Fire Officer, and Fire Master all appear to denote the top executive of a fire service, and whichever names aren't used for the article can be redirects. Jclemens (talk) 14:58, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

Fire Chief is a US term, in England they were called Chief Fire Officers nver Fire Chief but since reorganisation of the service in the UK, they are now in the main called County Fire Officer and many are called CFO & Chief Executive. The term Fire Master is specific to Scotland where again many have now taken the name County Fire Officer.Geotek (talk) 20:25, 21 December 2008 (UTC)

As a current and 15 year serving member of a Scottish Fire & Rescue Service and member of CFOA I have never heard the term 'Fire Chief' be used within Scottish or English Fire Services. 'County Fire Officer' is also a term that I have never heard until coming across it here. The term 'Firemaster' (not Fire Master) was a title that had a place in Scottish fire service legislation until the introduction of the Fire (Scotland) Act 2005, when the title was removed and that of Chief Fire Officer put in place. Where the individual Fire Service's lead officer doesn't have an operational fire background, the usual title is 'Chief Officer'. I'd go for maintaining the 'Firemaster' article properly corrected and with appropriate links from related articles.194.70.44.116 (talk) 13:26, 24 August 2010 (UTC)

Merge done. Same job, just different titles in different places. -- P 1 9 9 • TALK 15:57, 20 February 2011 (UTC)

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