The mayor has tapped a former city assistant fire chief to oversee the fire department — as well as police and 911 — as New Haven’s next chief administrative officer.
In a Monday afternoon email press release, Mayor Justin Elicker announced that he has picked Justin McCarthy to serve in that deputy mayor position, which is responsible for the city’s public safety agencies, along with the parks, public works, human resources, and engineering departments.
McCarthy spent two years as New Haven’s assistant fire chief of administration, before retiring in 2023 to take a similar assistant fire chief role in Greenwich…