A memorial service will be held at 11 a.m. Thursday at the Alameda County Fairgrounds for Bill McCammon, retired Alameda County Fire Chief who died in his sleep Oct. 13. He was 61.
Mr. McCammon was currently serving as the executive director of the East Bay Regional Communications System Authority, which built and operates an inter-operable communications system for 43 public agencies within Alameda and Contra Costa counties. He was also the current president of the Alameda County Fair Board of Directors and Treasurer of the National Fire Protection Association’s Board of Directors.
As the first fire chief of Alameda County Fire, the department doubled in size under his leadership with the addition of contracts for service with the cities of Dublin and San Leandro and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
In 2012, McCammon was elected Vice Chair of FirstNet. His work on D-Block and FirstNet was driven by his passion for interoperable public safety communications.
He is survived by his wife Rose Padilla-Johnson and three children, Monica, Daniel and Jessica.
In lieu of flowers, donations in honor of Mr. McCammon may be sent to the Davis Street Family Resource Center at 3081 Teagarden, San Leandro, CA 94577. Donations may also be made online via www.davisstreet.org and will be used to support its primary care medical clinic.
Thursday’s memorial service will be held in Building A, the Young California Building, at the Fairgrounds. Although the service will begin at 11 a.m., guests are encouraged to arrive no later than 10:30 a.m.