Gary Miles
费城询问者
(MCT)
3月16日 - 75岁的詹姆斯·P·史密斯（James P.在新泽西州大洋城
史密斯酋长知道火力像其他人一样战斗。He was a member of the Philadelphia Fire Department for 41 years, rising from a 19-year-old rookie in 1966 to deputy chief, the department’s highest civil service rank, in 1987. He worked for engine and ladder companies in every section of the city and served for four years as director of the Philadelphia Fire Academy.
He graduated from the U.S. Fire Administration’s executive fire officer’s program, made himself an authority on strategy and the tactics of fighting fires, and, committed to sharing that knowledge, became a popular instructor and mentor at the National Fire Academy, the Emergency Management Institute, and the National Emergency Training Center in Maryland.
他使用幽默，常识和个人轶事，在全国各地就消防服务问题和程序进行了演讲，分析和作证，并在2016年在Fireground上发表了教科书，战略和战术考虑因素，该注意事项是其第四印刷。他写并咨询了有关消防服务的书籍和数百篇文章，并写了一篇名为“消防研究”的专栏，该专栏出现在Firehouse杂志上34年。
他于2016年入选该杂志的名人堂，最后一栏出现在2月。
史密斯酋长在最后一栏中说：“在全国各地旅行，举办研讨会并与各种消防部门的消防员见面，向我展示了到处都有才华横溢的消防员。”“这向我表明，友情在消防部门还活着。这让我感到自豪地说我是一名消防员。”
上周，同事和朋友向史密斯酋长致敬，从高速公路立交桥的家人从大洋城到葬礼之间的费城，许多人写了在线致敬。
一位同事在网上致敬中说：“他选择消防和EMS作为我最初的职业道路的主要原因之一。188金博网网址多少”另一位写道，史密斯酋长是“学者，一名老师，一位学科的大祭司，这是使您的头脑中的头脑和努力完善您的手艺的灵感。”
他的儿子詹姆斯·P·史密斯（James P. Smith Jr.与爸爸在消防部门中所取得的成就相比，他在一个人和一个有家人的生活中要好得多。”
Born Nov. 15, 1946, in Philadelphia, Chief Smith grew up in Tacony and graduated from Father Judge High School. He worked as a teenager to help his mother and nine younger siblings after his father died and got a job with the Fire Department right out of high school.
他在附近遇到了帕特里夏·奥马利（Patricia O’Malley），并于1967年结婚。
史密斯酋长在下班时执教了他儿子的青年棒球，足球和篮球队，后来紧随其后的是他孙子的运动剥削，使他们成为剪贴簿，并给他们发短信给他们鼓励和建设性的建议。
夏日慵懒的午后,他喜欢咀嚼family issues, politics, and other topics at the kitchen table with his daughter. “It was always fun and often thought-provoking,” she said.
He cooked and baked (especially at the firehouse), played cards and golf, and fished and rode dirt bikes in the Pocono Mountains. He personally renovated every room of their home in Tacony and later traveled to Europe with his wife.
“It never gets old hearing people praise Dad for not only his knowledge but his wonderful demeanor,” his son wrote in a tribute that was published last month in Firehouse magazine. “To use Dad’s own term, he’s good people.”
In addition to his wife and children, Chief Smith is survived by five grandchildren, one great-grandson, four sisters, and five brothers. A sister died earlier.
服务是3月11日和12日。
以他的名义捐款可能是向费城消防人员当地22号，第五街415号，宾夕法尼亚州费城第22街415号。
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