{"id":595683,"date":"2026-04-10T22:18:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T22:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/595683\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T22:18:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T22:18:10","slug":"winnipeg-fire-paramedic-service-chief-to-retire-in-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/595683\/","title":{"rendered":"Winnipeg Fire Paramedic Service chief to retire in July"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Winnipeg Fire Paramedic Service is about to search for a new chief.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Christian Schmidt, who has led the city&#8217;s emergency response department since August 2021, will retire on July 3, the city announced in a Friday press release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Schmidt started working for the city in 1993. Before being appointed chief, he worked as a paramedic, communications officer, staff inspector, superintendent, assistant platoon chief, assistant chief and deputy chief, the city said.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Winnipeg Mayor Scott Gillingham said in a statement Schmidt led the fire-paramedic service &#8220;through a period of real modernization.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The city said it will search for a new chief but did not specify a timeline for that recruitment effort.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">There are few other vacancies among the senior ranks of the city&#8217;s public service. The city is still in the process of hiring a new communications director.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Winnipeg Fire Paramedic Service is about to search for a new chief. Christian Schmidt, who has led&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":595684,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[226080,49,48,226078,226081,226083,226082,22073,226079],"class_list":{"0":"post-595683","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-winnipeg","8":"tag-assistant-chief","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-christian-schmidt","12":"tag-deputy-chief","13":"tag-emergency-response-department","14":"tag-scott-gillingham","15":"tag-winnipeg","16":"tag-winnipeg-fire-paramedic-service"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=595683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/595684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=595683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=595683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=595683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}