VIDEO: Prince George’s County is getting a new fire chief, County Executive Aisha Braveboy announced at a news conference Monday. Thelmetria “Meme” Michaelides, will take over as chief, Braveboy said. “As chief I won’t have all the solutions,” Michaelides told reporters. “But I will empower and challenge command staff, and all men and women of Prince George’s County Fire and EMS Department.” Michaelides said she worked for the department for 26 years in various roles, starting off as a dispatcher in 1987. She eventually went on to become a paramedic inside the department, then went on to become a bomb technician. She’s lived in the county for 47 years. Michaelides said she’ll spend her first several weeks on the job assembling her command staff and doing a full evaluation of the department’s needs going forward, she said. She was the department’s first female bomb tech, Braveboy said, and also the first African American female bomb tech in the state of Maryland.
