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New Potawatomi Tribal EMS Director & Fire Chief Hired

By Greg Bebermeyer

04/12/2013

Doug Schreiner

( KNZA )-- A new director of Emergency Services and Fire Chief for the Potawatomi Tribal Fire Department is on the job.

Doug Schreiner recently began work in the position.

He’s no stranger to the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation having previously worked as a shift captain and a paramedic for the department from 2000-2008. Since that time, he worked as the fire brigade coordinator for Westar Energy.

Schreiner has lived in Shawnee County all of his life and began working in emergency services in 1993. He has an associate degree in fire science from Kansas City, Kansas Community College and received certification as an Industrial Emergency Response Specialist through Texas A&M University. He also possesses other state and national certifications.

Schreiner oversees a crew of about twenty-one firefighter / emergency medical technicians and paramedics.

The Fire Department has been in service to the reservation and citizens of Jackson County for 33 years.

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