Sean C. Morgan
With the retirement of Battalion Chief Doug Emmert, Sweet Home Fire and Ambulance District has promoted paramedic Ken Weld to battalion chief and hired paid intern Zach Lincoln as a paramedic.
The fire department’s paid firefighter-paramedics are a fire chief, three battalion chiefs and six paid paramedics.
Both Weld and Lincoln have been named the Fire and Ambulance District’s Firefighter of the Year.
Weld, 40, has been with the department since volunteering…