Marquam Johnson is a 50-year veteran of the Connecticut Fire Service. Beginning as a volunteer in Collinsville, he rose through the ranks to become Chief in 1982. With a college degree in architecture, he worked briefly as a Fire Protection Engineer. He was hired as a firefighter in West Hartford in 1979. He retired from West Hartford in 1991 to become the Fire Chief in Torrington, a position he held for 10 years. The final 21 years of his career were spent as the Daytime Driver for the Barkhamsted Fire District. This mix of career and volunteer service informed his career as a Fire Service Instructor; he taught for both the Hartford County and Litchfield County fire schools, and spent 41 years as a CT Fire Academy Instructor. He was an Adjunct Faculty member at the National Fire Academy in the1990s. One of the highlights of his career was his induction into the CT Firefighter’s Hall of Fame, Class of 2019. He “retired” once again in 2022 and moved with his wife to Michigan. There he continues to pursue his passion for firefighting and instruction as a paid-on-call member of the Alpena Township Fire Department.