Burlington Fire Chief Matt Lawrence was honored with the North Carolina Association of Fire Chiefs Career Chief of the Year award for 2026 Friday evening at the North Carolina Fire Chiefs Conference in Concord.
The North Carolina Association of Fire Chiefs states “This award, the most prestigious honor the North Carolina Association of Fire Chiefs can bestow upon its chief fire officer executives, was conceived to recognize truly outstanding fire chiefs whose actions and leadership in their profession, home, community and country, serve as an example and challenge for all other chief fire executives throughout the southeast. The selected Fire Chiefs of the Year will be submitted as the North Carolina nominees for the IAFC – Southeastern Fire Chief of the year.”
The award is presented annually.
