Thirty-nine years ago today, Aubrey D. Jenkins was hired as Firefighter for the Columbia Fire Department starting out on the tailboard on an Engine to a Battalion Chief. In 2005 he was appointed to Deputy Chief and in 2011 he was hired as the first African-American Fire Chief. In 2017 Chief Jenkins was elected as the first African-American Third Vice President of the South Carolina State Association of Fire Chiefs during the 2017 South Carolina Fire & Rescue Conference.
CONGRATS CHIEF JENKINS!
