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Senate Resolution
Sponsors: Senator Cleary
Document Path: l:\council\bills\gm\24671ab11.docx

Introduced in the Senate on February 23, 2011
Adopted by the Senate on February 23, 2011

Summary: Assistant Fire Chief Daniel J. Cimini

HISTORY OF LEGISLATIVE ACTIONS

     Date      Body   Action Description with journal page number
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   2/23/2011  Senate  Introduced and adopted (Senate Journal-page 19)

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2/23/2011

TO RECOGNIZE AND HONOR ASSISTANT FIRE CHIEF DANIEL J. CIMINI, UPON THE OCCASION OF HIS RETIREMENT AFTER FORTY-NINE YEARS AS A FIREFIGHTER, AND TO WISH HIM MUCH SUCCESS AND HAPPINESS IN ALL HIS FUTURE ENDEAVORS.

Whereas, the members of the South Carolina Senate are pleased to learn that Assistant Fire Chief Daniel J. Cimini will begin a well-deserved retirement on March 10, 2011, and that he will be honored for his years of service at a dinner, surrounded by family and friends, on March 4, 2011; and

Whereas, on May 2, 1962, Daniel Cimini joined the Runnemede Volunteer Fire Department in New Jersey, and from 1964 to 1968, he served his country with distinction in the United States Air Force as a crash firefighter; and

Whereas, upon his separation from the Air Force, Chief Cimini served the fire departments of Frankford Arsenal from 1968 to 1973 and Runnemede from 1970 to 1989 in numerous capacities, and he served as the Camden County, New Jersey, chief deputy fire marshal from 1973 to 1989; and

Whereas, from 1990 to 1999, he served as the lieutenant-assistant chief in the Blue Ridge Fire Department in Virginia before joining the Myrtle Beach Fire Department in 1999; and

Whereas, he has served as the lieutenant of public education and the public information officer, the captain of support services, and the assistant chief for the Myrtle Beach Fire Department; and

Whereas, during his years with the Myrtle Beach Fire Department, he planned and prepared for the inspection that resulted in a class-one department's rating that ranked it forty-second in the nation; he created a department vehicle-maintenance program that saved the city thousands of dollars each year; he developed a lease program that insured the most up-to-date apparatus for the department; and he created a corporate volunteer advisory board to promote fire-safety education; and

Whereas, Chief Cimini served as the vice president of the Horry Georgetown Fire Chiefs Association from 2004 to 2005, as the association's president from 2006 to 2007, and as its secretary-treasurer from 2009 to 2011; and

Whereas, using his years of experience, he served on the board of directors for the Fire and Life Safety Educators Association, and for five years he filled various chairs for the State Fire Chiefs Association and served as its president from 2008 to 2009; and

Whereas, the members of the South Carolina Senate are grateful for the service and experience that Daniel J. Cimini has provided to keep the citizens of South Carolina safe, and they wish for him in his much-deserved retirement, years of enjoyment with his lovely wife, Pat, and their two fine daughters. Now, therefore,

Be it resolved by the Senate:

That the members of the South Carolina Senate, by this resolution, recognize and honor Assistant Fire Chief Daniel J. Cimini, upon the occasion of his retirement after forty-nine years as a firefighter, and wish him much success and happiness in all his future endeavors.

Be it further resolved that a copy of this resolution be presented to Daniel J. Cimini.

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