GETTIN’ SALTY EXPERIENCE PODCAST Ep.255: DEPUTY CHIEF RONNIE JAMES
Gettin' Salty Experience Firefighter Podcast
Gettin Salty Experience
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🗓️ 18 July 2025
⏱️ 98 minutes
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Summary
- 1964-1970 Station Firefighter for Dallas Fire Department
- 1970-1971 Lieutenant,
- 1970-1973 Manpower Squad
- 1973-1977 Captain
- 1977-1983 Battalion/Section Chief
- Assigned to the Training Division in 1977
- 1983-1987 Deputy Chief, Dallas Fire Department
- Assigned to Special Emergency Operations by Fire Chief
- Appointed and assigned Operations Deputy Chief (1983)
- 1987-2001 Fire Chief, Wichita Falls Fire Dept
- 2001-2014 Adjunct Instructor, TEEX - Emergency Services Training Institute (ESTI)
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| 0:00.0 | Disclaimer, we'd like to note before the start of this interview that the opinions about to be expressed by the guest on tonight's Get Insulte Experience podcast are that of the guest and do not directly or necessarily reflect the views of the host of the Getton Salty Experience podcast. You're listening to the getting salty |
| 0:31.4 | You're listening to the getting salty experience podcast. |
| 0:35.6 | Hello! Hello Hello |
| 0:40.3 | Paul the Rev. Mayenberg. |
| 0:45.3 | That's my boy. |
| 0:46.5 | Speaking to him on the phone. |
| 0:48.2 | You know what my boy is? |
| 0:49.8 | Who? |
| 0:50.4 | Mike? |
| 0:50.6 | Mikey Colon. |
| 0:51.4 | I knew you were going to say that. |
| 0:52.6 | Hello. |
| 0:53.0 | He's everybody's boy. |
| 0:54.3 | He's a head cut, too. I yelled at him going to say that. Hello. He's everybody's boy. He's got a hecker, too. |
| 0:55.4 | I yelled at him last week, a two weeks ago. I did. He was looking a little unkept. My barber was on vacation. God was down in some other crews. I've never seen a guy take more cruises than Gonzo, crying out loud. I don't know. He's a little tight on cash, too. |
| 0:51.2 | I don't know how that's worth. |
| 0:52.6 | I don't know. |
| 0:53.0 | That's the chief money, baby. |
| 0:54.5 | Maybe he's taking those, you know, those cruises, those, you know, with the pineapple. He's doing a lot of FEMA stuff, so, you know, you know how to credit. Oh, yeah, right, right, right. Anyway, Paul Beinberg got me, this guy. He's only got 50 years in the fire service bro did two totally different careers one in dallas one in |
| 1:11.5 | wichita wichita got me this guy he's only got 50 years in the fire service bro did two totally |
| 1:28.0 | different careers one in Dallas one in the Wichita Falls Texas right if I get that |
| 1:34.3 | right this time like which falls which is Wichita Falls same thing Wichita Faw or yeah whatever |
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