Fire Chief A 50-Year Veteran
MCCORKLE HAS SEEN PLENTY OF CHANGE IN FIVE DECADES OF FIREFIGHTING
Posted: March 1, 2010 at 4:35 a.m.
STAFF PHOTO J.T. WAMPLER Mitch McCorkle, chief of the West Fork Volunteer Fire Department, looks Tuesday at the two tanker trucks he built for the department. McCorkle has been chief since 1960.
This was a sleepy town of about 300 people on March 1, 1960, when the City Council decided to form a fire department. They appointed a chief and handed him the keys to an old panel truck with a blown transmission.
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