Today we joined together to wish Chief Fire Officer Stuart Errington a long and happy retirement, following his last day at Fire HQ.
Stuart, our first ever “home grown” Chief, followed in his father Eddie’s footsteps joining CDDFRS on 11th January 1993 and worked as a firefighter in Newton Aycliffe and Consett before moving up the ranks working at the service’s training centre and eventually taking a secondment to work for the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and leading on a Fire Control National Project. After re-joining the service, Stuart was promoted to Head of Risk in 2007. In 2012, he was appointed as Deputy Chief Fire Officer, becoming Chief Fire Officer in 2016.