By TOM CARDINALE
The new year will begin a new era for the Bradley Beach Fire Department when Nicole Zech, 31, will be sworn in as the borough’s first female fire chief.
Zech, whose father, John Zech, has served as chief numerous times in his 31 years on the squad and most recently in 2002, said it wasn’t a position in which she ever saw herself.
I really didn’t want to do it, Zech said of joining the fire department seven years ago. One of my friends who passed away, TJ Flood, he really pushed me into it. I was talking to his father and he (TJ) said I should do it.
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