HANSON – The Select Board welcomed the town’s newest firefighter, and witnessed his swearing-in ceremony during their meeting on Tuesday, June 10.
Jeffrey Meyers is a Hanson native who had transferred to the Hanson Fire Department from Attleboro Fire and completed his one-year probation and the Mass. Firefighting Academy recruit training program.
“Jeff has been with the department a little over a year now,” said Fire Chief Robert O’Brien Jr. “He’s a 2014 graduate of W-H, and spend four years in the military in the infantry. Ironically, a few years ago when we were having call firefighters, Jeff was one of the people we selected and we knew he’d be the perfect person for full-time position.”
But Meyers was at HFD for a “hot minute” before he went to work with Attleboro, O’Brien said.
He asked what to do, as he really liked the Hanson department and was advised to go to Attleboro and get the experience and when he achieved his firefight-paramedic status, come on back.
“When we went through the last hiring process, Jeff and [Paramedic training officer Peter O’Brien] talked to each other about it an Jeff came back to us,” Chief O’Brien said. Meyers is currently assigned to B shift with Lt. Wilson.
“Ironically this is her first public swearing-in,” he said in introducing new Town Clerk Jessica Fraceschini to administer the oath ton Meyers before his new badge was pinned on by his mom Linda as his dad Jeffery looked on.