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Gettin' Salty Experience Firefighter Podcast

GETTIN’ SALTY EXPERIENCE PODCAST Ep.255: DEPUTY CHIEF RONNIE JAMES

Gettin' Salty Experience Firefighter Podcast

Gettin Salty Experience

Society & Culture

4.9765 Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2025

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Summary

GETTIN’ SALTY EXPERIENCE PODCAST Ep.255: Be sure and join us live this Tonight Thursday, July 17th at 8pm on our Youtube Channel with our special guest Dallas FD 38 year veteran, Deputy Chief Ronnie James
  • 1964-1970 Station Firefighter for Dallas Fire Department
Driver-Engineer Engine 1 (1969) Driver Truck 47 – Tillerman (1969) Second Driver Truck 1 – Tillerman (1966) Station 1 Engine (1966) Station 23 (1964)
  • 1970-1971 Lieutenant,
Assigned to Station 18
  • 1970-1973 Manpower Squad
  • 1973-1977 Captain
Station 14 (1976) Station 33 (1973)
  • 1977-1983 Battalion/Section Chief
Reassigned to Operations Division (1982) Head Instructor for FF Tactic course for Fire Training 1985
  • Assigned to the Training Division in 1977
  • 1983-1987 Deputy Chief, Dallas Fire Department
  • Assigned to Special Emergency Operations by Fire Chief
Haz-Mat Team SCUBA Divers High Angle Rescue Confined Space Rescue Helicopter Life Saver Plan Emergency Medical Response (EMS)
  • 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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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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