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Sense of ‘pride and ownership’

Designed in-house, new insignia encompasses department’s history, future

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Windsor firefighters are changing up their logo, switching to a design that focuses not only on the organization’s rich history but its future.

For the membership, it’s a welcome change.

The revamped insignia was unveiled earlier this month, with the station’s new flag being carried by the department’s colour party during the Remembrance Day service.

Longtime firefighter Capt. Chris Sullivan, who also serves as the Windsor Fire Department’s colour party parade marshal, says he’s proud of the new design.

“To have our own emblem, it fills me full of pride every time I see it,” said Sullivan, who will have served 31 years of active duty this Christmas.

He’s been a member of the colour party since its inception more than two decades ago. Like many longtime firefighters, he has a sense of “pride and ownership” serving the community.

“On my 30th year, I started a tattoo sleeve just to commemorate the 30 years that I had been there, and I have the new coat of arms actually tattooed on my arm,” he said, noting he’s “100 per cent behind” the new design.

“It’s (about) pride and ownership of Windsor Fire.”

Windsor Chief Jamie Juteau said the membership had wanted to customize its logo for some time.

“I think it’s important for the department to realize that although we’re steeped in the past — we’re steeped in our history — we are blazing a trail going forward,” said Juteau. “A lot of things are changing for the better. It was just time to have something new to represent the fire service.”

The Windsor Fire Department was formed in 1881 by Windsor’s town council and a group of concerned citizens.

Over the years, the department had a few different emblems, but Juteau said most of them were fairly generic.

Then, he said about a decade ago, the department adopted an emblem based on the Canadian Fire Chiefs Association standard.

It was diamond-shaped with a Maltese cross and the name of the department at the top.

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