By Sharyn L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter
Bud Goodwillie today said he resigned two weeks ago from the rural Chehalis fire district he became chief of three and a half years ago.
Goodwillie offered no details on the reason for his departure.
Lewis County Fire District 6 operates with one full time employee, the chief. He was paid $72,000 a year.
The district has a volunteer assistant chief, 35 to 40 other volunteers and several part-time paramedics, firefighters and EMTs, according to Goodwillie.
He said his understanding was longtime volunteer Steve Lux is acting as interim chief.
“I wish the best for that fire department, it has good potential,” Goodwillie said this afternoon.
Goodwillie, 55, left his position as a captain with Centralia’s Lewis County Fire District 12 to take the chief job in August 2007. He said he’s looking at “different areas to venture into.”
District 6 is one of four local fire agencies exploring the idea of creating a “super” fire department along the I-5 corridor in the northern half of Lewis County.
Calls to two of the district’s three fire commissioners to ask about the change weren’t immediately returned today.
Update Wednesday Feb. 23, 2011 at 8:30 a.m.: Greg Pulver, chair of the board of fire commissioners, sent a news release about 9:30 p.m. Tuesday night saying Goodwillie resigned and Lux will serve as interim chief while the district seeks a replacement.
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter