In 1999 and 2000, during his junior and senior years at Trigg County High School, Josh Holley had a pager in the campus office.
And if it went off, he had to be pulled out of class, in order to answer the call of the Cadiz Volunteer Fire Department.
Fast forward 24 years later, Holley is answering the call once again, when Tuesday night Cadiz Mayor Todd King swore him in as the city’s next fire chief, at the station he knows all too well.
Husband to Sarah, father to Adyson and Oakley, his experience in local firefighting spans two decades, as he follows in the footsteps of five-year former chief Thomas Futrell, and a lengthy spell at the spot from former Cadiz Public Works Director Kerry Fowler.
In the immediacy, Holley takes on a volunteer crew replete with knowledge and skill, but bereft of cash or liquidity. This, he knows, and he will report to Cadiz City Council at the first of every month — relaying the successes, faults, wins and losses to King, council members and City Attorney Allen Wilson.
King also presented a plaque to Futrell for his efforts, and Futrell further assured he was staying on as a key volunteer for the team, but needed to turn his focus and extra time to family.
He, too, has been with the squad since the late ’90s — when a term of community service pointed him this direction.
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