Plympton-Wyoming has parted ways with another fire chief.
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The municipality neighboring Sarnia said in a statement this week that Erik Campbell, its fire chief and director of fire and emergency services, was no longer employed by the Town of Plympton-Wyoming effective Monday.
“The town would like to. . . thank him for his contributions and wish him the best in his future endeavors,” the statement said.
“As this is a confidential personnel matter, the town will not be making any further comment,” it added.
In a second statement, the town announced Will Davison has been appointed acting fire chief.
The town said Davidson has “significant firefighting experience” with the municipality.
“The Town of Plympton-Wyoming looks forward to working with acting Chief Davdison during this transition period,” the municipality said.
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Plympton-Wyoming’s Fire and Emergency Services has fire stations in Wyoming and Camlachie. As well as a full-time fire chief and administrative staff, there are two part-time, on-call district fire chiefs and 60 part-time, on-call firefighters, according to the municipality’s website.
Campbell is the third fire chief to leave Plympton-Wyoming since 2021.
When his appointment was announced by the town last summer, Campbell was fire chief and emergency response and planning manager at St. John’s International Airport Authority in Newfoundland.
“We want to move forward,” Mayor Gary Atkinson said in 2023 when Campbell was hired. “We’ve got two departments and we want to continue to get them working together as a team.”
Before Campbell’s arrival, the town of 8,000 had been without a permanent fire chief since the municipality parted ways with former chief, Darryl Thompson in spring 2023.
Thompson, who’d been on administrative leave since earlier that year. had been hired in 2021 to head the town’s fire and emergency services department.
He started several months after Steve Clements, who]d been fire chief since 2017, stepped down “to focus on other personal and professional opportunities,” the municipality said at the time.
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