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Retired Gainesville Fire Chief A.B. Sailors dies at 83
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A.B. Sailors
Whether he was called “Old Dad” or “The Storyteller,” A.B. Sailors was a mainstay of the Gainesville Fire Department. “He’s just one of those characters that people like being around,” Gainesville Fire Chief Jerome Yarbrough said. Sailors, a 34-year veteran of the department who served as fire chief in 1991, died Monday at the age of 83.