(A) Generally. The Chief shall be Chief of the Volunteer Fire Department, subject to the Mayor and Board of Trustees, and shall have command and control of the Department and all members thereof. He or she shall have the general care and custody of the engines, hosecarts, hoses, trucks, hooks, ladders and all other property and equipment of the Department and shall personally attend to all repairs required to be made upon same.
(B) Command at fires.
(1) The Fire Chief shall attend all fires occurring within the village and take command of the organization and see that the several members of the Volunteer Fire Department faithfully perform their respective duties. The Fire Chief may order the tearing down of any buildings when, in any emergency, it shall be deemed necessary to check the progress of any fire.
(2) The Fire Chief or other officer in command may prescribe limits in the vicinity of any fire within which no persons, except those who reside therein, firefighters, police officers and those admitted by order of any officer of the Volunteer Fire Department, may be permitted to go. He or she shall have power to cause a removal of any property whenever it shall become necessary for the preservation of the property from fire, to prevent the spreading of fire or to protect adjoining property.
(C) Records and reports. The Fire Chief shall keep, in a book to be provided for that purpose, a full, true and complete record of all the property and equipment of the Fire Department, together with a record of all transactions of the Volunteer Fire Department and of all property placed in his or her charge and custody, and he or she shall, annually, at the close of each fiscal year, make a written report to the Mayor and Board of Trustees showing the condition of the Department, under his or her management, together with a complete list of all fires occurring in the village during the preceding year, the date and location of each fire, the loss incurred thereby, the amount of insurance and other information as he or she may deem important.
(Prior Code, § 4-1-4)