{"id":356575,"date":"2026-07-29T19:08:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T19:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/356575\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T19:08:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T19:08:09","slug":"st-pete-beach-announces-promotion-of-new-fire-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/356575\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Pete Beach announces promotion of new fire chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The city says former Deputy Chief Adam Poirrier will be promoted to Fire Chief.<\/p>\n<p>ST. PETE BEACH, Fla. \u2014 The City of St. Pete Beach has announced Adam Poirrier as its new fire chief.<\/p>\n<p>Poirrier, who has been with the city for more than ten years and previously served as Deputy Fire Chief, will be promoted to chief on Aug. 3.<\/p>\n<p>St. Pete Beach&#8217;s former Fire Chief Jim Kilpatrick retired last month after 24 years of service.<\/p>\n<p>One of Poirrier&#8217;s responsibilities as chief will include oversight of the ongoing construction of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtsp.com\/video\/news\/st-pete-beach-demolishes-the-damaged-fire-station-that-was-damaged-in-the-2024-hurricanes\/67-3f80ba37-6ef7-4782-b70b-a783f68ea528\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fire Station 22.<\/a> The new station will replace the one damaged during the 2024 Hurricane Season.<\/p>\n<p>Poirrier will also continue in his role as Assistant City Manager, which he has held for the last 18 months.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am deeply honored and humbled by the opportunity to serve as Fire Chief,&#8221; Poirrier said in a statement. &#8220;Our focus will remain on providing the highest level of service to our residents and visitors, supporting our firefighters and EMS professionals, and ensuring St. Pete Beach remains a safe, prepared, and resilient community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Poirrier has more than 25 years of experience in the fire service. He holds a Master of Public Administration from Troy University and is a graduate of the National Fire Academy\u2019s Executive Fire Officer Program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The city says former Deputy Chief Adam Poirrier will be promoted to Fire Chief. ST. PETE BEACH, Fla.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":356576,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-356575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}