CORONADO An Explorer program and a big fire ignited Darren Hall’s passion for firefighting and teaching two skills that led the Coronado fire captain to receive a statewide award this week as Training Officer of the Year.
Hall credited one of his Hilltop High School teachers in Chula Vista for suggesting a firefighting career. He joined the Chula Vista Fire Department Explorer Program, which was how he happened to help on a hose line the night an arsonist torched four classrooms at Castle Park Elementary School in Chula Vista in 1991.
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