{"id":93763,"date":"2025-12-19T04:42:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T04:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/93763\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T04:42:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T04:42:09","slug":"corpus-christi-deputy-fire-chief-named-fire-chief-in-washington-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/93763\/","title":{"rendered":"Corpus Christi Deputy Fire Chief named Fire Chief in Washington state"},"content":{"rendered":"

After 27 years with the Corpus Christi Fire Department, Deputy Chief Kenny Erben is headed to Washington to lead Spokane County Fire District 8.<\/p>\n

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas \u2014 Corpus Christi Deputy Fire Chief Kenny Erben has been selected as the next fire chief for Spokane County Fire District 8 in Washington state, ending a 27-year career with the Corpus Christi Fire Department.<\/p>\n

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Erben will retire from CCFD as he transitions to the new role, where he will oversee fire and emergency operations for the growing district northeast of Spokane.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are proud to announce that Deputy Chief Kenny Erben has been selected as the fire chief for the Spokane County Fire District 8 in Washington State,\u201d the department said in a statement.<\/a><\/p>\n

Erben, a U.S. Army veteran, completed a 19-month overseas deployment as a combat engineer during Operation Iraqi Freedom while serving with CCFD.<\/p>\n

Erben began his career on B-shift at Station 1, serving on Medic 1, Engine 1 and Truck 1. He later promoted to driver on Engine 5, where he worked in the department\u2019s hazardous materials program.<\/p>\n

After promoting to captain on Engine 5, Erben transitioned into the rescue program, working on Engine 3 and Rescue 3. As a battalion chief, he served as Battalion 1 and Battalion 2 and acted as the department\u2019s Special Operations Coordinator.<\/p>\n


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For the past nine and a half years, Erben served in operations leadership roles, first as assistant chief and later as deputy chief.<\/p>\n

He also spent nine years with Texas A&M Task Force 1 as a rescue specialist before serving as a task force leader, medical unit leader, and chair of the Wildland Medical Support Committee for the Texas Emergency Medical Task Force. Erben also served as Large-EMS chair on the CBRAC board.<\/p>\n

CCFD officials say he was active in labor and management leadership, serving as a union steward, health and benefits trustee, and first vice president of Local 936.<\/p>\n

Officials said that in the community, Erben is a graduate of Leadership Corpus Christi Class 44, spent 11 years as a member of the Rotary Club of Corpus Christi, and served for a decade on the Salvation Army Advisory Board.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe know you will continue your strong commitment to service and leadership,\u201d the department said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After 27 years with the Corpus Christi Fire Department, Deputy Chief Kenny Erben is headed to Washington to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":93764,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156],"class_list":{"0":"post-93763","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-corpus-christi","8":"tag-corpus-christi","9":"tag-corpus-christi-headlines","10":"tag-corpus-christi-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}