CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — Corpus Christi Fire Department Chief Robert Rocha has been selected to head an international organization of fire chiefs.
Rocha was elected president of the Metropolitan Fire Chiefs Association (MFCA) at the organizations annual meeting in Memphis, Tennessee.
More than 130 Metropolitan Fire Chiefs from the United States, Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Mexico attended the meeting and elected the Association’s 2022-2023 officers and board members, according to the City of Corpus Christi.
“This is a great honor for the Fire Department and the City of Corpus Christi,” Fire Chief Robert Rocha said. “It validates the tremendous progress we have made in the Department’s professionalism and places our City in the forefront of the Fire Service.”
Membership is limited to members of the International Association of Fire Chiefs (IAFC) and the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) and are fire chiefs of cities or jurisdictions having a minimum staff of 350 firefighters.
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