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9 t4 Page Two Section fflbf Ariiona Batln Star Sunday, August 2, 1992 Moreno Zoo addition XUt rr vi 1 i ill fill It I them pass the entrance test. It took until 1984 for the first woman applicant to be accepted as a trainee, and five more years, and more modifications to the qualification process, for the second. Today, Moreno said, there are nine women in the department. Still, he said, the changes didn't come fast enough, and the department must resolve several civil rights complaints as a result Paramedic program support Moreno's support for the paramedic program extends to well before he became chief. It was Moreno who pushed for all fire personnel to be trained as emergency medical technicians, established the program's ties with hospitals and professionalized the service, Valdez said.

Moreno said he was an early supporter of the paramedic program because "that was the service delivery the public demanded." With advances in fire prevention, stricter fire codes, improved fire education and the elimination of many blighted, fire-prone areas, the demand for fire suppression leveled off, whereas the demand for emergency medical assistance grew, he said. Today, the department gets four emergency medical calls for every fire call, he said. Moreno is eligible to retire. He admitted he had already considered thinking about it before the leaking tank issue erupted. He has a bachelor's degree in education from the University of Arizona earned during his time off as a firefighter and, at 54, he is still young enough to start a second career.

But he said he won't quit now. Not until his reputation has been restored. Not until he can leave on his own terms. "'I believe what they're doing is wrong," he said of the council's effort to force him out. "I did nothing wrong.

Why should I succumb to intimidation?" The battle is making him bitter, however. "I'm recognized internationally for the work I've done and I can't get a dime for a cup of coffee in my own town," he says. heads wear hats to do non-firefight-ing work outside in the sun. Moreno wanted them to wear their heavy safety helmets. Moreno said the regulations have since been relaxed, and that the problem has been resolved.

"I've always been fair" He defends his position. The Fire Department is "a paramilitary organization. You have to have structure. You need discipline," he said. He acknowledged being an authoritarian.

"Yes, I am firm, but I've always been fair," he said. "We have rules and regulations, and I hold people accountable." Valdez agreed Moreno can be difficult to work for, but said he is that way for good reason because people's lives are at stake. "He's a perfectionist He demands production." Valdez said he believes Moreno's attitude goes back to his early training as a firefighter that "if a supervisor at a fire barks a command, you jump and don't question. If that's being hard, well, I don't think it's hard." Moreno is active in the community. He is president of the board of La Frontera Center, a South Tucson mental health center.

He is on the executive board of the Catalina Council of the Boy Scouts and a trustee at Tucson Medical Center. Some of his supporters have said they believe his work with La Frontera is partially behind his conflict with some council members. La Frontera units La Frontera opened a home for the chronically mentally ill in Wheeler's ward and a psychiatric facility in Leal's ward, over the objections of both councilmen. At least one of them allegedly threatened to even the score. Moreno said he "cannot respond" to that claim.

Valdez said Moreno doesn't get nearly enough public credit for advances in the Fire Department, such as his efforts to open the department to women and Improvements in the paramedic program. In 1982, a month before he was promoted from acting chief to the permanent job, Moreno instituted a program to recruit women and provide them special training to help Continued from Page IB aging fleet of fire trucks. A particularly sore spot is Moreno's decision to close Engine Co. 6, at 2835 E. Grant, which saved $360,000 a year.

In February, the union overwhelmingly approved a vote of no confidence and called for Moreno's removal, but never delivered it to the City Council. Springer said if the City Council doesn't remove Moreno over the leaking tanks, the union will likely renew its vote to seek his removal over the other issues. As a firefighter, Moreno was a member of the union. He said he was one of the first firefighters to go off his job during the 1975 police-fire strike. But his job has changed.

"As a department head, I have a fiscal responsibility to the city and the citizens of the community," he said. "I've done the best I can with the resources available." Closing Engine Co. 6 He said no one's safety or property was jeopardized by closing Engine Co. 6, because other nearby fire companies were easily able to handle the call load. He said he would never approve doing anything that would compromise the safety of the community.

"This is my home. My family and friends live here. I want them to have the best," he said. He admitted to holding back on major equipment purchases during the past few tight budget years. "The alternative to buying the equipment they said I should have bought would have been closing more stations and laying off people," he said.

City Safety Coordinator William Wantland said he understands the firefighters' complaints. He said Moreno is very difficult and sometimes impossible to work with. "He wants things his way, without questions," Wantland said. Wantland cited one conflict that took several years to resolve, when Moreno refused to let firefighters with active skin cancers on their i i i i i 1 i ill Ed Compear), The Arizona Daily Star tional effort to maintain sound bloodlines within the species by preventing interbreeding. Reid Park Zoo has three of the 345 Grevy zebras found in the world's zoos.

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