The Monroe City Council promoted Battalion Chief Andrew Dykes to lead the Monroe Fire Department.
After interviewing four finalists who were selected in a national search, the City Council voted to offer the job to Dykes. He accepted immediately.
Councilman David Dickinson made the motion to offer the position to Dykes, and it passed unanimously, according to City Administrator Logan Propes.
“I am appreciative of the council for providing this opportunity and I’m looking forward to serving our community in my new position,” Dykes said Friday, his first day in the new role.
He will succeed Bill Owens, who was let go last year. Since then, Dykes and fellow Battalion Chiefs Jack Armstrong and Joe Page have led the department.
A Social Circle resident, Dykes has 16 years with the department, 12 of them as an officer.