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Former Rancho Cucamonga Fire Chief Mike Bell
has been selected as the new Director of ConFire.
Bell is a 33-year veteran of the fire service and
began his career in Apple Valley as a paid-call
and seasonal firefighter in 1981 before being
hired full-time by the City of Banning in 1983.
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e also served as a part-time dispatcher for Desert Comm (the
then regional communications provider for High Desert agencies).
In 1985 Bell was hired by the Foothill Fire District , which is now the
Rancho Cucamonga Fire District. Early in his career there he also served
part-time as a dispatcher with the Ontario (Pre Comm) communications
center, which dispatched for most of the West End fire agencies.
“Things have come a long way since my pre 9-1-1 days at Desert Comm,”
Bell says. “But the basic role of answering, processing, dispatching and
monitoring incidents remains the core of any emergency communications
center. I think Comm Center is one of the best in the state.”
In his role as deputy chief he was tasked with managing the transition
of Rancho Cucamonga Fire from the Ontario communications center to
Comm Center. This two-year project resulted in a smooth and successful
transition in December of 2009. Bell credits the team approach taken by all
stakeholders for that success. As fire chief, Bell oversaw the culmination
of that process when in 2013 Rancho Cucamonga became the first new
member of Confire since its inception.
Bell s