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TONIGHT BREAKING NEWS
ONLY ON TEN. PORTSMOUTH
HAS A NEW FIRE CHIEF.
SOME COUNCILMEMBERS SAY
THE DECISION INVOLVED
SECRECY
AND CONFUSION REPORTER
ANDY FOX HAS BEEN
DIGGING INTO THIS STORY
ALL DAY.
WE DUG INTO THIS STORY
ALL DAY. WORKING THE
PHONES, GETTING IN
CARS, TRYING TO TRACK THE
PLAYERS DOWN.
FOR MOST OF THE DAY
COUNCILMEMBERS THOUGHT
THEY HAD
TWO FIRE CHIEFS. FORMER
CHIEF DON HORTON HAD
RESIGNED, WENT TO
RICHMOND FOR FAMILY
ISSUES, WENT ON FAMILY
MEDICAL LEAVE, AND THEN
SUDDENLY RETURNED TO
PORTSMOUTH. SOME
COUNCILMEMBERS THOUGHT
LOOKING FOR HIS OLD JOB
THAT HAD BEEN TEMPORARILY
FILLED.
(2;17 2) ((HE DID CONFIRM
THE CHIEF IS BACK I ASKED
ABOUT. DO WE HAVE TWO
PORTSMOUTH CITY MANAGER
KEN CHANDLER
HE WANTED TO KNOW WHO IS
THE FIRE CHIEF.
INTERIM FIRE CHIEF BECK
BARFIELD OR FORMER FIRE
CHIEF DON HORTON
WHO LEFT, BUT HAS NOW
RETURNED COUNCILMAN BILL
MOODY.
(4:35 2) ((TAX PAYERS
HAVE THE RIGHT TO KNOW
WHAT IS HE DOING. WHAT IS
HIS JOB. HE IS BACK AS
THE FIRE CHIEF. IS THAT
WHAT
HE TOLD YOU THAT IS WHAT
IS INFERRED. YES))
RUNS: 08 HOLD ON. TWO
FIRE CHIEFS?
COUNCILMAN STEVE HERETICK
SAYS COUNCIL HAS BEEN
KEPT IN THE DARK
WITH THE SUDDEN RETURN OF
A REPSONBILITY TO LET YOU
KNOW
.YEA)) RUNS: 06
WE WENT EVERYWHERE
LOOKING FOR ANSWERS.
KEN CHANDLER REMAINED
UNAVAILABLE ALL DAY.
WE ALSO SPENT THE DAY
LOOKING FOR INTERIM CHIEF
BECK BARFIELD.
WE SPOTTED HIM IN THE
CITY HALL GARAGE, BUT
WHEN HE SAW US HE LEFT,
WE FOLLOWED HIM UNTIL WE
BOTH STOPPED AT A RED
LIGHT, AND WE ASKED HIM
WHAT IS GOING ON? (26:47
20)
(( WE REALLY WANT TO
INTERVIEW YOU CHIEF. WHAT
CAN YOU TELL US ABOUT
ANYTHING. ARE YOU
STILL THE CHIEF? YES I AM
IS HE THE CHIEF TOO. NO
HE IS NOT.
WHAT HAVE YOU BEEN TOLD
ABOUT HIS POSITION? I
HAVEN 'T BEEN TOLD
ANYTHING IF I HAVE SOME
INFORMATION I WILL
GIVE IT TO YOU. BUT RIGHT
NOW I HAVE TO GO TO A
MEETING))
RUNS; 22
IN THAT MEETING ACCORDING
TO THIS EMAIL TO
COUNCILMEMBERS
WE OBTAINED. BECK
BARFIELD IS THE NEW FIRE
CHIEF
PAID $107,000 DOLLARS AND
FORMER CHIEF DON HORTON
FILLS A
CURRENT VACANCY AS DEPUTY
DIRECTOR OF EMERGENCY
MANAGEMENT. HE WILL BE
PAID $98,000 A YEAR.
TROUBLING TO COUNCILMAN
BILL MOODY, NONE OF THAT
WAS TOLD TO
HIM WHEN HE ASKED ABOUT
THIS ISSUE THIS MORNING.
THAT PART OF THE STORY
TONIGHT AT SIX.
FOUR NORFOLK-BASED
SAILORS WERE HURT ABOARD
THE U-S-S HARRY S.