Casey Wilson appointed as permanent chief of Merced Fire Department

MERCED, Calif. (KFSN) -- The City of Merced has appointed Casey Wilson arsenic the caller main of the Merced Fire Department.

Wilson has been the interim main since 2024 and has implicit 2 decades of experience.

"Casey has demonstrated exceptional enactment arsenic Interim Chief, and his proven quality to negociate analyzable operations, budgets, and assemblage partnerships makes him the perfect prime to pb the Merced Fire Department into the future," said City Manager, Scott McBride.

Earlier this year, nether Wilson's leadership, the Merced Fire Department celebrated a caller occurrence squad vehicle.

It marked the archetypal enlargement of the department's frontline effect fleet successful 65 years, strengthening the quality to support and service a increasing Merced community.

"Serving arsenic Interim Fire Chief has been an honor, and I americium grateful for the spot placed successful maine to proceed starring this unthinkable department," said Wilson successful a property release.

Wilson officially begins his caller relation today.