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Kindersley Fire Brigade Announces New Chief

The members of the Kindersley Fire Brigade would like to announce that we have a new Fire Chief, Fire Chief Jeff Soveran.

Jeff has spent many years as a business owner and operator in Kindersley, he moved here in 1989 as refrigeration tech for Cold Spot Refrigeration. In 1997 he leased the Kindersley Bowl-a-Drome and soon purchased the business, in 2012 he sold that to move onto new adventures. Jeff has owned and operated many businesses in Kindersley such as Cue Sports Bar, JS Computer Services, JEM Creative Solutions and Kindersley Social. Jeff also works as an IT manager for Murlin Electronics and is the Vice President of the Kindersley Chamber of Commerce.

Fire Chief Soveran raised his family here, he was a single dad for many years raising his daughters and that came with many challenges. However, he managed to be a dad, run businesses, be an active member of the Fire Brigade and met his wife Loreen. Jeff and Loreen have a large blended family that was raised right here in Kindersley.

Fire Chief Soveran Joined the Kindersley Fire Brigade on February 1-1990. He has served on the public education committee as well as he was secretary for both the Town and Rural Fire Association. In 1999 Fire Chief Soveran completed his Level 1 Fire Service instructor under NFPA standard 1041. Since that time he has also completed the Professional Competence of Responders to Hazardous Materials Incidents-Awareness Level under the NFPA Standard 472, Professional Competence of Responders to Hazardous Materials Incidents-Operations Level under the NFPA Standard 472, and Fire Fighter Professional Qualification Level 2 under the NFPA standard 1001, St John Ambulance First Aid CPR/AED level C, Surface Cold Water and Ice Rescue, Emergency Preparedness Training Program, Vehicle Extrication Level 1 & 2, Farm Accident Rescue, Fire Investigation training from the Saskatchewan Fire commissioners office, Incident Command System 200. Jeff is also a member in good standing with SVFFA, CVFSA, CAFC.

Fire Chief Soveran has been awarded the Fire Services Exemplary Medal (2010), and The Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal (2013), Saskatchewan Protective Services Medal (2016), Long Service medal (2019), and 1st bar for the Exemplary Medal (2020), Canadian Volunteer Fire Service (2021).

During his years on the department, he has had the responsibilities of chairing and managing many Fire Prevention week activities, from open houses to visiting schools to educating students about fire prevention. He has prepared many reports on behalf of the Department for Council or CAO’s, and or the Fire Chief. Maintained a database for maintenance of our SCBAs, Hoses, and all other firefighting related equipment.

We are proud to have someone with 31 years of diverse experience step into the role of Fire Chief–Congratulations Fire Chief Jeff Soveran on your new journey.

“Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change” – Stephen Hawking-

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