The Catoosa County News reports that former Catoosa County Emergency Management Director Clyde Ingle, 55, died March 7, of undisclosed causes. He served as director from 2001 to 2005 and resigned due to health problems.

Ingle spent his entire career in emergency services, initially as a volunteer with Tri Community Fire Department at age 18, then at the Chattanooga Fire Department in 1974 where he retired in 1998 after an injury, the paper reported.

The paper also said that it was under Ingle’s leadership that 911, law enforcement, fire departments, the school system, utilities, public works departments, road departments and other agencies met for the first time before expected emergencies and developed a plan of action.