My husband is the Assistant Fire Chief here in our town. He's been a volunteer firefighter for over 37 years now. Right now Walt is not certified to run EMT, but he has been in the past for many, many years.
Must be something that gets in your blood and just will not let you go. I can share with you horror stories of some of the accidents that Walt has worked. I can tell you story after story of fires they've fought. I can't begin to tell you how many Christmases, Birthdays, Anniversaries, Easters, and other holidays were interrupted by the fire or rescue tone going off.
Right now, because of the aneurism, Walt is not allowed to even get on a firetruck. But it doesn't matter. He is STILL a firefighter. He goes up to the station to do paperwork or to fill air bottles or to run the radio. Anything he can do to help. And if the media is involved in a scene, they do call Walt out to deal with them. He keeps saying that he should just retire. But every time I think he's really going to do it, he just can't. It's what he loves.
I got a good dose of why he loves this so much during his time in the hospital. If you think that the church becomes your "family", you haven't seen anything yet! Those firefighters and EMT's do it better than any church I've ever seen. They ARE family to each other. There is a bond there that cannot be broken. I think that's what keeps him going back over and over
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