Mike Marcucci on Tuesday announced his retirement as Napa County fire chief, effective Friday.
The Napa County fire chief will leave his post and join Marin County Fire.
Mike Marcucci, who has led Napa County Fire since 2022, will retire from the position on Friday, the Napa County Board of Supervisors announced. The board issued a proclamation recognizing Marcucci's service at its meeting Tuesday morning.
In a brief speech, Marcucci told supervisors the departure will allow him to be closer to family members.
"It is with mixed feelings that I retire, but an opportunity to come back home to family could not be passed up," he told supervisors.
It was not immediately known Tuesday what position Marcucci will occupy at Marin County Fire.
An interim chief will lead Napa County Fire - which is operated by Cal Fire under a 94-year-old agreement between the county and the state firefighting agency - for about two weeks while the county interviews potential successors to Marcucci.
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It was not immediately clear whether Napa County's next fire chief would have a direct local connection like Marcucci, a Napa resident.
Marcucci was chief of Cal Fire's Sonoma-Lake-Napa Unit two years ago when the agency appointed him to lead Napa County Fire, shifting the previous head, Jason Martin, to deputy fire chief.
The move unnerved some Napa supervisors, who said Cal Fire made the decision without consulting them first.
"For this to unilaterally happen with no prior discussion is pretty disturbing, frankly," then-Supervisor Diane Dillon told her colleagues shortly after Marcucci's promotion. "That's not the way we've operated in the past with Cal Fire."
Both Marcucci and Martin described the move as a change only of title and not duties. "Nothing is changing on the day-to-day," Marcucci said at the time.
Since 2012, Napa County Fire had had a full-time chief devoted to the department, paid by the county but still employed by Cal Fire.
This is a developing story and will be updated.
Photos: Napa Valley Faces and Places, June 22, 2024
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