“I can’t imagine a better decision than the one I made to come to Bellbrook,” Neidhard said.
Neidhard said when he was a child he wanted to be a police officer. After graduating from Ohio State University, he started selling copiers, but said he was missing a community service aspect and didn’t feel totally fulfilled.
Neidhard started as a volunteer firefighter in Washington Twp. in 1985 to get some public service experience. He started as a full-time firefighter/paramedic in Miamisburg in 1990 and quickly climbed the ranks.
He was hired in Bellbrook as the city’s second full-time chief in 2014, the city said. Neidhard oversaw the passage of the levy in 2018 that allowed the department to increase staffing numbers to a safer level.
Bellbrook Mayor Mike Schweller said Neidhard would be missed in his “well deserved” retirement.
Bizzarro started with the Bellbrook fire department in 1988 as a cadet. He became a volunteer firefighter and paramedic in 1995 and became part of the first group of part-time firefighters for the department. He became a full-time firefighter in 2006 and worked his way up the ranks to deputy chief in 2018.
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