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____ <br />Denise Giard has joined the department as Deputy Chief for Ad- <br />ministrative Services & Support. Chief Giard holds Master's <br />degrees in Public Administration and Business Administration, <br />and a Bachelor of Science Degree from the University of Mas- <br />sachusetts. She is also a graduate of the National Fire Acad- <br />emy's Executive Fire Officer Program. <br />Her fire service career spans thirty-two years, twenty-three of <br />which have been managing emergency medical service (EMS) <br />operations for the Albany Fire Department and Corvallis Fire <br />Department. Chief Giard has a strong EMS background and <br />served as a Paramedic, an Infection Control Officer, Quality As- <br />surance Coordinator, EMS Training Officer, Health Insurance <br />Accountability Act (HIPAA) Privacy Officer and an Ambulance <br />Billing Compliance Officer. <br />In addition to supervising the department's EMS, Logistics, Finance, Planning, and the Ambu- <br />lance Billing functions, Chief Giard is in charge of the Ambulance Transport System funding <br />and stabilization plan, construction plans for a new fire station at the Eugene Airport, and strate- <br />gicpartnerships. <br />The. third division under the reorganization is Special Operations, <br />Training, and Prevention, headed by Deputy Chief Joe Zaludek. <br />With 22 years of fire and emergency medical services experience <br />and 19 years as a Paramedic, Chief Zaludek has had the opportu- <br />nity to serve the Eugene Fire & EMS Department in the positions <br />of Firefighter, Engineer, Lieutenant, Captain, Training Captain, <br />District Chief and Training Chief. He has worked 14 years as a <br />member of the Oregon State Regional Hazardous Materials Team <br />as a Hazardous Materials Technician, Shift Team Leader and <br />Team Supervisor. <br />Chief Zaludek's division includes the department's Training Sec- <br />tion, Prevention Section, and all special teams (Water Rescue, <br />Technical Rescue, HazMat, and Airport Rescue & Fire Fighting). <br />He also is developing a regional Ere and EMS training program <br />to be centered at the department's headquarters & training facil- <br />ity, and is working toward completion of that facility's training prop area, <br />for, among other things, an incident scenario simulation lab. <br />with plans calling <br />This is the department's only major reorganization since the deconsolidation of the former De- <br />partment ofPublic Safety (Fire and Police combined) in 1997. <br />Department O~~anization <br />Fire Chief <br />Public Information ~ Special Operations, pp <br />Officer Shift 0 erations Training & Administrative & <br />Division prevention Division Su ort Division <br />OPS SP OPS ADMIN <br />\ 1 <br />Executive Assistant <br />7 <br />Deputy Chief Giard <br />Deputy Chief Zaludek <br />