Deputy Fire Chief Mike Inman has worked as a fire service professional for over 40 years. Chief Inman started his career in 1983, as a reserve firefighter with the Monterey Park Fire Department. In 1986, he was hired as a firefighter with the County of Los Angeles Fire Department (LACoFD) and has promoted through the ranks as a firefighter paramedic, firefighter specialist, fire captain, battalion chief, and assistant fire chief.

Currently assigned as the deputy fire chief of the Special Services Bureau (SSB), Chief Inman leads 300 personnel across divisions that include Command and Control, with 113 dedicated professional that handle over 500,000 calls for service. Construction and Maintenance with 94 professional trades personnel that maintain over 260 facilities to include: 176 fire stations, 10 camps, 29 lifeguard facilities and miscellaneous other facilities He also oversees the L. A. Co. FD’s Equipment Development Committee. Previous assignments include managing the East Regional Operations Bureau which consisted of four divisions, 10 battalions, 76 fire stations and 1400 personnel which served 34 cities.

Well versed in emergency management, Chief Inman became a pioneer in the Urban Search and Rescue program that included several national deployments. For over 23 years, he has held various incident command system (ICS) positions as part of the United States Forest Service Type 2 Incident Management Team (IMT) and served as the operations section chief and operations branch director with the Cal Fire Type 1 IMT. Since 1998, Chief Inman has served in various capacities on the LACoFD Incident Management Teams.

Chief Inman is a certified California State Fire Marshal Chief Officer, and a graduate of the Executive Leadership Development Program and Public Safety Leadership Program at the University of Southern California, Sol Price School of Public Policy. He teaches FEMA and California Incident Command Certification System (CICCS) courses and is a qualified incident commander, operations section chief, safety officer, and division supervisor. Over the last several years, Chief Inman has served as the operations section chief for several all-risk and wildland urban interface incidents, including, but not limited to, the Woolsey Fire (2018), Saddle Ridge Fire (2019), Operation Room Key (2020), COVID-19 Mass Vaccinations (2021), and Super Bowl LVI (2022).