JOYCE — Clallam County Fire District No. 4 Chief Dave Chastain may lose his job at Wednesday’s meeting of the fire district commissioners.
An executive session will start at 4:30 p.m., an hour before the regular session, in the fire station at 51259 State Highway 112 in Joyce.
Chastain has said he will challenge the executive session so that the discussion about him can proceed in public.
Commissioners were tight-lipped about the situation Monday, with Commissioner Mary Bower saying the issues would be discussed at the meeting.
The newest commissioner, Donna Kay Buck, said she wasn’t authorized to speak about the matter.
However, Chastain’s wife Anne — also a District 4 firefighter and emergency medical technician — said the commissioners want to oust her husband both from the chief’s job and from the entire department.
Chastain has offered to leave as chief and has surrendered his keys to the fire stations District 4 maintains in Joyce and at Freshwater Bay.
Still, he wants to stay with the all-volunteer department.
It has 17 firefighters, paramedics and emergency medical technicians.
“All he wants is to remain as a volunteer,” Anne Chastain said Sunday.
“All we want to do is to continue to be a fire department, continue to be a team, continue to fight fires, and continue to help the injured and sick.”
Chastain’s full-time job is firefighter/paramedic with the Port Angeles Fire Department.
