fire chief

noun

: the head of a fire department

Examples of fire chief in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The Orland Professional Firefighters Local 2754 union continues to raise concerns about the fire district’s ability to respond to an increasing number of calls since an ambulance went offline in June, despite the new fire chief’s assertions the additional ambulance is not needed. —Olivia Stevens, Chicago Tribune, 13 Jan. 2026

The Esparto fire chief, who accepted free fireworks shows from the company, signed the building permit. —Joe Rubin, Sacbee.com, 13 Jan. 2026

Previous testimony in December 2025 by the deputy fire chief of the Troy Fire Department concluded that the explosion that killed 5-year-old Thomas Cooper could have been avoided, citing static electricity as the cause. —Veronica Ortega, CBS News, 12 Jan. 2026

Robert Garcia, a thirty-year veteran of the US Forest Service and now fire chief for the Angeles National Forest, was sitting in his situation room in Arcadia, a city in the San Gabriel Valley in the shadow of the sprawling forest. —Literary Hub, 8 Jan. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1847, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for fire chief

• cloverleaf
• disbelief
• leitmotif
• overleaf
• unbelief
• beef
• brief
• fief
• grief
• leaf
• lief
• reef