Tom Sampson, the chief of the Calgary Emergency Management Agency (CEMA), is retiring.Sampson’s career spanned time in EMS, the Calgary Fire Department (CFD), and finally CEMA.Sampson announced his retirement at a press conference Wednesday before leaving for B.C.
to provide medical care for his sister and brother-in-law.“Retiring during the pandemic — tough decision,” Sampson said. “Quite honestly, I was going to leave earlier and I’ve pushed that off.
And actually yesterday I agreed to stay another month to ensure the appropriate transition to the new chief of CEMA.” Calgary councillors to pressure provincial government to reverse EMS dispatch consolidation Sampson said his original intent was to see the city out of its state of local.