Scottsdale Deputy Fire Chief

Adam Hoster has lived in and around the City of Scottsdale since 1975. A graduate of Coronado High School, and Scottsdale Community College, Adam began his career in the Fire Department as a Firefighter for Rural/Metro FD Scottsdale in 1994 and has served in the City of Scottsdale since. During his time with Rural/Metro, Adam became a paramedic in 1998, received training as an Airport Rescue Fire Fighter, Technical Rescue Technician, Fire Marshall/Investigator, and promoted to Fire Captain in 2001.

Adam continued his career as a Captain/Paramedic for the City of Scottsdale’s first municipal Fire Department in 2005. Adam had the opportunity to work as a Fire Captain within the City of Scottsdale’s from a variety of fire stations from South to North before promoting to Battalion Chief in 2015. He served in both the North and South Battalions until 2019 when he was promoted to the rank of Deputy Chief -Resource. 2020 Deputy Chief of Operations.

Adam currently serves as the Deputy Chief of the EMS division for the fire department. His primary function is to provide high quality pre-hospital care, performance and operational readiness of EMS personnel, manage, BLS / ALS certifications for all SFD members, EMS training and paramedic school training. Quality improvement and performance, medical direction coordination and budget management. Additional responsibilities include policy development / compliance, community and interagency liaison.

Adam obtained his AA degree in Fire Science from Scottsdale Community College (1995), a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Columbia Southern University (2014) and a Master of Arts in Public Administration from Grand Canyon University (2019).  He completed the Certified Public Manager program at Arizona State University in 2019 and obtained his Certification.  Scottsdale Leadership graduate in 2022, class #36.