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CABARRUS COUNTY FIRE PROTECTION STUDY Leslie D. Adams Mr. Les Adams would serve as the corporate principle and on -site project director. Mr. Adams, the former deputy fire chief of a combination paid/volunteer fire, rescue and EMS county system in Maryland, and volunteer fire chief in Queen Anne's County, Maryland, has 30 years of fire /EMS management experience. He has served as the operations deputy fire chief of a fire department that serves 850,000 residents with paid and volunteer firefighters and rescue personnel. As a practitioner in the fire service, Mr. Adams has managed fire operations with 33 fire stations, 1,400 paid and volunteer (600) personnel, 31 engines, 14 ladder trucks, 35 Basic Life Support units, 13 Advanced Life Support units and 120 paramedics. He has been responsible for all duties of fire services, including personnel management, planning and research, facilities, apparatus, training, dispatch, administration, and operations. He has served as a volunteer member of four volunteer fire departments, essentially at all ranks and administrative positions, in developing communities, including his current department—the Kent Island (MD) Volunteer Fire Department. Mr. Adams has served as a fire department and rescue squad /FMS consultant for 22 years in 55 cities and counties. He has taught at the National Fire Academy on modern techniques in fire services operations and has been on the faculty of Montgomery Community College teaching Fire Science Administration. Mr. Adams has served as the Chairman of the International Association of Fire Chiefs (IAN C) Personnel Management Committee And, he has been a peer assessor with the Commission on Fire Accreditation International. He holds a B.S. in Business Administration from the Columbia Union College, and has completed course work on a Masters degree in General Administration. / f i s Pubfi. Stay 1— 8 Attachment number 2 F -4 Page 76