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Fire Chief Appoints First African American To Chief Deputy
Los
Angeles County Fire Chief P. Michael Freeman has announced the
promotional appointment of Daryl L. Osby to the position of Chief
Deputy of Emergency Operations. He is the first African-American
chief officer to be appointed to the rank of Chief Deputy in the
history of the Los Angeles County Fire Department.
Osby joined the Department 24 years ago and has served in all ranks,
most recently as Deputy Chief of the East Regional Operations
Bureau, where he was responsible for emergency service delivery and
management, performance and personnel management, training, budget
and community issues related to the region’s 76 fire stations
serving 33 cities and several unincorporated communities. In his new
position, Osby will serve second in command to the Fire Chief and
will be responsible for the Department’s entire emergency
operations.
His executive level experience also includes leadership, development
and management of the Special Operations Bureau, including the
Department’s ocean lifeguards, Air Operations, fire suppression
camps and technical rescue services. Osby has also worked in several
emergency management positions throughout his career and has been an
Incident Commander on an Incident Management Team for the last five
years. He was a top commander of many headlining incidents,
including the Commerce train derailment, the 2003 California fire
siege, the 2005 Topanga Fire and the Catalina Island fire in May
2007. Following Hurricane Katrina, Osby was deployed to Louisiana
for 18 days to assist the City of New Orleans in developing a
continuity plan for their city government and managing recovery
efforts.
Osby holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Organizational Leadership
from Azusa Pacific University and is a candidate for a Master of
Science Degree in Emergency Services Administration at California
State University, Long Beach. He has instructed at Clark Atlanta
University, Carl Holmes Executive Development Institute, for the
last decade and previously taught at the James Shern Fire Academy in
Los Angeles. He is also a State-certified incident commander and
chief officer.
Throughout his career, Osby has been actively engaged in community
and mentoring activities throughout the Los Angeles region. He has
been the recipient of many awards and commendations from local and
State entities for his related work. He currently directs three
youth-oriented foundations, including Los Angeles Junior
Firefighters Foundation, Youth for Excellence Foundation and
Firefighter ABCs. He serves on the board of directors of the African
American Museum and Learning for Life. He is a member and former
president of the Stentorians, a firefighter organization, and former
member of the board of directors for the Inglewood YMCA.
A long-time resident of Pomona, Osby and his wife, Margaret, have
two daughters, Stephanie, 22, and Nicole, 17.
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