Macomb Township Clerk Kristi Pozzi, left, swears in Tyler Miller as a part-time firefighter on the morning of Aug. 14. Macomb Township Fire Department Chief Robert Phillips looks on.

Photo by Dean Vaglia

MACOMB TOWNSHIP — As concerns surrounding staffing levels in the Macomb Township Fire Department escalate, five new part-time firefighters were sworn in on the morning of Aug. 14.

Tyler Miller, Joshua Palmer, Derek Gapczynski, Joshua Morton and Trevor Lesnau were sworn in by Township Clerk Krisit Pozzi and given their helmets by Fire Chief Robert Phillips during a ceremony held in the Township Hall’s meeting room. Families and friends of the sworn-in firefighters attended the ceremony and were invited to a second ceremony and orientation at a fire station later that day.

The five part-

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