A volunteer fire chief in Pennsylvania is out of a job after calling Pittsburgh Steelers coach Mike Tomlin a “no good” N-word — but he insists he’s not the “racist the media portrays” him to be.

Paul Smith resigned as chief of the Muse Volunteer Fire Department in Cecil Township after his bigoted Facebook post Sunday about Tomlin and his team remaining inside the tunnel during the singing of the national anthem ahead of the game against the Bears, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports.

“Tomlin just added himself to the list of no good N—-rs,” Smith wrote in a Facebook post. “Yes I said it.”

Smith confirmed his resignation in a statement to the newspaper Tuesday, but seemingly stopped short of taking full responsibility for the comments that “deeply disturbed” the township’s board of supervisors.

“I regret what I said deeply and I am not the racist the media portrays me as,” Smith’s statement continued. “What I said was wrong and posted in anger.”

Donald Gennuso, manager of Cecil Township, said officials have been inundated with some 550 calls and 450 emails from around the world since late Sunday in response to Smith’s comments.

“Everyone who represents the township needs to be respectful of all people and this is certainly something we have no tolerance for,” Gennuso told the Post-Gazette.

Smith, who was out of the country on vacation Tuesday, had worked for the department as a volunteer for 23 years and was named its chief a short time ago. He previously told WPXI that he was “embarrassed” by his comments.

“I want to apologize,” he told the station. “I was frustrated and angry at the Steelers not standing for the anthem … This had nothing to do with my fire department. I regret what I said.”

Several local firefighters told the station they weren’t comfortable with Smith’s comments. The township’s board of supervisors denounced the Facebook post in a statement released Monday.

“The Cecil Township Board of Supervisors is deeply disturbed by the comments made by volunteer Chief Smith, and in no way, shape or form condone his comments,” according to the statement to WPXI.

The Steelers were among a growing number of teams and players who protested ahead of and during the national anthem at NFL games Sunday after President Trump called for owners to “fire” players who took a knee during “The Star-Spangled Banner.” Trump referred to any player who did not stand as a “son of a bitch” during a political rally late Saturday in Alabama.

Smith’s comments and the subsequent fallout caught the eye of Jemele Hill, the ESPN host who called President Trump a “white supremacist who has largely surrounded himself w/ other white supremacists” earlier this month.

“Best believe, this wasn’t the first time this fire chief called Mike Tomlin or any black person n—–,” Hill posted on Twitter on Tuesday.