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Published on Wednesday, May 07, 2008
By Rick Coca
GLENDALE - On his first day of fire academy training back in 1989, Harold D. Scoggins showed up at the wrong place.
"I was late the first day of the academy," he said. "So I thought my stay here in Glendale would be very short at that time. But who knew it would turn out like this?"
On Wednesday, Scoggins, 42, was officially introduced as the city's new fire chief, the first African-American chief in the department's history.
In front of a few hundred relatives, friends, colleagues and city leaders gathered at Fire Station 21, he thanked his family - wife, Abigail, and their four children - and firefighters for their support. He acknowledged several commanding officers who had taken him under their wings at the start.
"I was a kid who was born and raised in Los Angeles, and they invited me on a water-skiing trip with them," he said
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