Meet Tampa Fire Rescue's Chief Tracy Walker

Tracy Walker
Tampa Fire Rescue District Chief 4-C

Works at: Station 12, 3073 W. Hillsborough Ave.
Joined: 1983
Personal: 50, Married with children and grandchildren.
Hometown: Tampa, FL

Patch: What do you like most about your job?

Walker: That it’s always changing. Everything is always different. Everyone loves helping people. Even the same type of call is always different.

Patch: How did you become interested in firefighting?

Walker: My father-in-law. My father was a fireman in Tampa from ’67 to ’69, and then he started his own business. My father-in-law retired from the city of Tampa fire department.

Patch: What’s your most memorable call?

Walker: I went to a propane farm that was on fire and blowing up. It was across from the jail on Orient road. It’s probably the only time in my career that I didn’t think that I’d survive.

Patch: What’s your favorite color?

Walker: It has to be red.

Patch: What was the last movie you saw?

Walker: "Pirates of the Caribbean."