The Stevens Point Fire Department currently is working on prioritization in the department, Moody said. The city also is looking at the department's division chiefs for someone to take over the fire marshal's position. The public will see a few changes in the department. The city just purchased a 107-foot ladder truck from Pierce Manufacturing that will be coming at the end of 2022 or beginning of 2023. Dennis Zvara has been promoted to assistant chief and the department needs to fill other officer positions from inside or outside the department, Moody said. The department also recently had promotions internally.
The Stevens Point department has had a lot of retirements recently and has several other people who could retire in the near future, Moody said. There have been a steady flow of applicants that have allowed the department to hire about three people at at time, he said. The department currently has seven or eight openings and is slowly filling them, Moody said. When they finish the academy, they become full members of the department. The participants will go through the daily operations and are taught what they need to know to be a member of the Stevens Point Fire Department. The department has a fire academy starting May 23 that will have three people in it, Moody said. "If I happen to be that person, I will fill that void," Moody said. They all are ready to fill in empty spots when calls come in, he said. each day, officers count as part of the minimum staffing numbers, Moody said. The department is short-staffed and is running an Overtime Relief, or OTR, Program, he said. He took on the role of fire chief at the beginning of March after the retirement of former Chief Robert Finn.Ī chief doesn't always get the chance to get out in the field, but Moody has been out on critical emergency medical service calls in recent weeks. He held the positions of lead paramedic, lieutenant, captain and assistant chief of fire department operations. Moody has worked his way up through the department. "I enjoyed the career field and doing the job every day," Moody said. He received his bachelor's degree in Developmental Leadership and Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh in 2020. He was deployed to Iraq in 2005 and came back to Stevens Point in 2006. Moody dropped out of nursing school, went to Mid-State Technical College to become a firefighter-paramedic and, in 2004, joined the Stevens Point Fire Department.
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