{"id":2895,"date":"2017-12-09T16:00:53","date_gmt":"2017-12-09T21:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/?p=2895"},"modified":"2017-12-28T09:23:03","modified_gmt":"2017-12-28T14:23:03","slug":"fire-chief-clarence-puryear-tar-heel-of-the-week-1973","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/fire-chief-clarence-puryear-tar-heel-of-the-week-1973\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire Chief Clarence Puryear &#8211; Tar Heel of the Week, 1973"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Found in the files of the Raleigh Fire Museum, a <em>News &amp; Observer<\/em> profile of incoming Raleigh Fire Chief Clarence Puryear. He was named their Tar Heel of the Week in the Sunday, January 14, 1973, issue.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2896\" src=\"http:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017-12-09-rfd4.jpg\" alt=\"2017-12-09-rfd4\" width=\"500\" height=\"273\" srcset=\"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017-12-09-rfd4.jpg 500w, https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017-12-09-rfd4-300x164.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Clarence Rudy Puryear Sr., born in 1919 in Virginia, entered the department in February 1941. After military leave from 1942 to 1946, he returned and rose through the ranks over the decades.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->He was appointed Chief of Department on June 1, 1973. Chief Puryear\u00a0served just over sixteen months and died off-duty of a heart attack on November 10, 1974. He was 55 years of age and had served 30.8 years. 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