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Bob Burlingame
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Chuck Jacobi
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Steve Smylie
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John White
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Rest in Peace: Chief Clark O. Martin Jr.
CommentsMy first apartment was near the NVCC Annandale campus. Up the street lived Clark and Helen Martin.
Clark, a fellow county firefighter, came from Henrico County near Richmond, where his brother was a police officer. Helen worked as a nurse at Fairfax Hospital. Clark shared my buff-level fascination with all things firemantic. During one vacation he found his way into a half-dozen San Francisco fire stations … until Helen complained.
LIVED FOR THE DETAILS
I never met someone as enamored with the details of a complex operation or procedure. While working in Communications he was a big part of the implementation of the 800 mHz radio system, CAD dispatch and the NOVA automatic aid procedures. Clark is responsible for Fairfax County appropriating the PG “800″ COG radio IDs for Fairfax reserve rigs in the early days.
He always worked to improve operations. I was a company officer in Seven Corners, working a serious accident with injury, and Clark, as the dispatch center Uniform Fire Officer, was working the incident radio channel. He adding notations in the event history on the performance of the “radio bridge” during this automatic aid event.
Using wall-sized county fire box map, a sheet of steel, a bunch of magnets and Mylar labels, Clark built an Ouija board in the dispatch center. Every fire company in northern Virginia had a magnet. During midnight shifts the dispatch center would create major alarm events to see how that affected the balance of county coverage.
It provided great visual understanding of the impact of a multiple alarm event. One night we applied the 1988 Los Angeles Interstate Bank fire and put it in Tyson’s Corners. Assuming the same staffing requirements, most of the northern Virginia fire companies would be on the fireground, along with some Montgomery County (Maryland) and District of Columbia fire companies.
Clark’s last assignment in Fairfax was the Special Operations Deputy Chief.
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INTO THE KEYS
Clark retired from Fairfax County in 2002 and was hired as the first county fire chief/director for Monroe County, Florida. It is the southmost county in the Keys. This LINK takes you to a September 2002 interview
About three years ago, seeking treatment for fatigue, cancer was found. As the treatments became more extensive, his friends and colleagues were receiving emails from Clark, providing detailed reports of the disease, treatment and progress. As the disease progressed, Clark had to resign from Monroe County.
They had to sell their dream house in Marathon and move to Jacksonville to be closer to the treatment center. Clark wrote his 18th update in mid September and his ever-positive approach to battling “Mr. Adenocarcinoma” included a detailed description of the
incident action plan(oops) patient treatment plan.Unfortunately, tactics went from offensive to defensive. Helen had to provide updates 19, 20, 21 and 22 that covered getting the chief home and arranging hospice assistance. The battle ended yesterday.
Mike Ward
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