 Dustin "Dusty" Martin took on the role of CP Fire Chief in mid-2022. He is no stranger to Cameron Park or El Dorado County, having worked for the Cal Fire Amador-El Dorado Unit in 2006 and becoming a fire captain at Cal Fire’s El Dorado Station 43 in 2010. The “ever-changing environment” is what drew Martin to a career in firefighting, he shared with the Mountain Democrat. Originally from Vacaville, he joined the Shasta Range Unit as a firefighter intern at Burney Station in 1999. His most recent assignment was at the McClellan Air Tanker Base, where he had worked on and off since the inception of the program in 2008; he took a permanent position there in 2018.
Martin said he enjoys “the variety of the job, the critical thinking, solving and mitigating emergencies” but most important to the new fire chief is giving back to his community.
[This story is adapted from a Mountain Democrat article by Jana Rossi, from Aug. 3, 2022.]
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