{"id":499087,"date":"2026-10-17T09:12:23","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T09:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/499087\/"},"modified":"2026-10-17T09:12:23","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T09:12:23","slug":"southern-marin-fire-district-welcomes-new-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/499087\/","title":{"rendered":"Southern Marin fire district welcomes new chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Heather Marques, the new chief of the Southern Marin Fire...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.marinij.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/MIJ-L-SMFD-CHIEF-1016-02.jpg?w=620\"  bad-src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Heather Marques, the new chief of the Southern Marin Fire Protection District, addresses the audience during her swearing-in ceremony at Southern Marin Fire Station 1 in Sausalito, Calif., on Thursday, Oct. 15, 2026. (Sherry LaVars\/Marin Independent Journal)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Firefighters and guests attend the swearing-in ceremony for Heather Marques,...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.marinij.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/MIJ-L-SMFD-CHIEF-1016-12.jpg?w=620\"  bad-src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Firefighters and guests attend the swearing-in ceremony for Heather Marques, the new chief of the Southern Marin Fire Protection District, at the fire station in Sausalito, Calif., on Thursday, Oct. 15, 2026. (Sherry LaVars\/Marin Independent Journal)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Heather Marques, the new chief of the Southern Marin Fire...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.marinij.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/MIJ-L-SMFD-CHIEF-1016-09.jpg?w=620\"  bad-src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Heather Marques, the new chief of the Southern Marin Fire Protection District, speaks to guests at her swearing-in event at the fire station in Sausalito, Calif., on Thursday, Oct. 15, 2026. (Sherry LaVars\/Marin Independent Journal)<\/p>\n<p>Show Caption<\/p>\n<p>1 of 3<\/p>\n<p>Heather Marques, the new chief of the Southern Marin Fire Protection District, addresses the audience during her swearing-in ceremony at Southern Marin Fire Station 1 in Sausalito, Calif., on Thursday, Oct. 15, 2026. (Sherry LaVars\/Marin Independent Journal)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"icon-enlarge mng-gallery-fullscreen-expand\" aria-label=\"Expand fullscreen slideshow\">Expand<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Southern Marin Fire Protection District swore in its new chief, Heather Marques, at a ceremony Sausalito on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Heather Marques, a former division chief at the Alameda County Fire Department, is the district\u2019s sixth chief and the first woman to hold the post. She replaced Chris Tubbs, who retired in July.<\/p>\n<p>The district includes 90 employees who cover Mill Valley, Sausalito, part of Tiburon, Tamalpais Valley, Almonte, Homestead Valley, Alto, Strawberry, Fort Baker and the Marin Headlands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Heather Marques, the new chief of the Southern Marin Fire Protection District, addresses the audience during her swearing-in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":499088,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[181,23,1396,100,180,101,103,102,3624,104,106,105,18946,99300,31023],"class_list":["post-499087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-mill-valley","tag-news","tag-newsletter","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sausalito","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news","tag-southern-marin-fire","tag-strawberry","tag-tiburon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=499087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/499088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}