Tim Dexter

Tim Dexter's father was a career firefighter for the City of Beacon so he grew up in the firehouse and wanted to be a firefighter his whole life .

Tim saved his neighbor from drowning when he was 5 and the newspaper stated he wanted to be a firefighter then. Tim started with playing with a wooden wagon with decommissioned fire hose, he joined the Fishkill Police Cadets at 14, Beacon Volunteer Ambulance at 15, the Beacon Fire Department at 16, and Hired by the Beacon Fire department at 18 ( went to probie school with Rob Ridley another guest of Behind the Tin).

In 2007, Tim transferred to the City of Newburgh and was promoted to Lt in 2014. He was promoted to Assistant Fire Chief in 2020 at 34 years old. Today, Tim is the shift commander for group 2 and the incident commander, basically run the shift and anything that goes on during the tour.