A ceremony Monday will greet the first woman to be appointed to the command staff of the Denver Fire Department.
Angela R. Cook will be sworn in as the division chief at Denver International Airport at 9 a.m. at the Denver City and County Building, becoming the highest ranking female firefighter in the department’s history.
Other new members of Fire Chief Jim Sestrich’s command staff will be deputy fire chief Gregory J. Champlin, division chief of operations Steve Maddox, and division chief of safety and training David M. Quintana.
Cook became a Denver firefighter in 1992. In 1998 she received the Equity Excellence Award for promoting diversity.
She also is a national speaker and instructor on incident management systems, strategy and tactics, as well as career development, according to the Denver Fire Department.
