Scott Wirth tapped FMB fire chief months after Chief Ronald Martin's resignation
Months after one of the longest-tenured fire chiefs in Southwest Florida announced his resignation, Fort Myers Beach Fire announced his replacement.
The Fort Myers Beach Board of Fire Commissioners on July 26 selected Scott Wirth. He was the fire district's chief of operations before he began his role as acting fire chief in March, when then-Chief Ronald Martin announced his resignation.
Wirth has 34 years of public service and has served the coastal community since 2017, just before Hurricane Irma, according to a memo from the fire district.
In 1989, while in high school, Wirth began his career in the fire service when he joined the Placid Lakes Volunteer Fire Department in Lake Placid, Fire Official Jennifer Campbell wrote in Wednesday's memo.
He began volunteering as a noncertified firefighter before the City of Fort Myers Fire Department hired him in 1991. He retired from their fire district in 2017 as the division chief of operations.
Fort Myers Beach Fire announced Martin's resignation in a March 17 memo.
"After many years of public service, Fire Chief Ronald Martin submitted a letter of resignation effective today," that memo read in part. "Chief Martin cited personal reasons for his resignation."
Martin had served in fire and emergency medical services since 1992.
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