Staff photo / J.T. Whitehouse Cardinal Joint Fire District Board Chairman Dave Knarr, left, administers the oath of office Monday to Canfield’s newest part-time firefighter, C.J. Glista.

CANFIELD — The Cardinal Joint Fire District added another part-time firefighter to its roster Monday with the swearing in of C.J. Glista, 19, of Canfield.

Glista is a 2025 Canfield High School and Mahoning County Career & Technical Center graduate who is planning to make a career as a firefighter/EMT. He holds a firefighter 2 certification and went through EMT training. He began his career in January in East Liverpool.

“I decided to make the fire service my career,” he said. “I grew up exposed to it.”

His father, Jason Glista, serves as assistant chief at the East Liverpool Fire Department, where C.J. was sworn in on Jan. 5. He is a full-time first responder there and will continue working there while working part-time in Canfield.

Following the oath of office on Monday, Glista had the honor of being pinned by his father as family and friends attended and applauded his decision to join Canfield.

Chief Don Hutchison said he is still looking for additional part timers and is down one full-time position.

Cardinal Joint Fire District board chairman Dave Knarr swore in Glista, but they already knew each other.

“I was the Canfield High School hockey team manager when C.J. played,” Knarr said. “He is a great young man.”

Knarr also noted he will be swearing in one more part timer next month when Tyler Christie joins the ranks. He said Christie also played hockey for Canfield and actually graduated four years before Glista. Both young men played their games at the rink in Boardman. Knarr said Canfield was the only local high school hockey team, so they had to play teams from the Cleveland area.

In other business, the board had to decide what to do with a 2005 Dodge Ram pickup truck that is no longer needed and is causing maintenance problems.

“We’ve taken the truck in for service many times,” Hutchison said. “It would be shut off, but would keep running.”

The district’s legal adviser, David “Chip” Comstock said the truck needs to have a value on it.

“If the value is over $2,500, then it would have to be bid out,” Comstock said. “If it is less than $2,500, then it could be sold to anyone.”

Hutchison said the decals, lightbar and siren will have to be removed, and all agreed to set the value at $2,400 so it could be sold quickly.

In other business, the board:

• Heard the April call report from Hutchison, which included 191 calls with zero fire loss, 115 ambulance transports, three mutual aid calls requested and one mutual aid received.

• Approved $9,616.05 to Lexipol to update and train on the department’s standard operating guidelines. The business will ensure the guidelines follow the state and federal guidelines.

• Approved Love Insurance for $4,196 for life and accident insurance for full-time personnel, and $3,246 for part-time personnel life and accident insurance.