Fire Service
I.A.F.F.
I began my career in the Fire Service when I
was 18 year's old. I started by joining the
Local volunteer Fire Department, Lincoln 1,
Station 3, Thomasville Fire-EMS. That was on
January 5th, 1995.
I joined mainly because a lot of my friend's
in school were involved in their local Fire
Departments and I became interested in it. I
thought it would be cool to respond to
Emergencies in the middle of the night.
In February I went to the local Fire School
and began classes to become a Fire Fighter.
It was there I found out that it was a lot of
hard work, but I didn't mind because I
thought
it was still cool. It was also during that
time that I became interested in EMS, which
was to become my career.
By May I was finished with Fire School and
was making plans on going to EMT school. I
was very active on both the Fire and EMS
aspect's of the Fire Service. It became an
obsession to me and I put it before anything
else in my life. I ended up losing a couple
of relationship's to it as well, but at that
point it didn’t matter to me.
In the Fall I began my EMT classes and also
my last year of High School. I also became
more active on the Ambulance. If there was an
EMS call you could almost grantee I would
be there. I loved running call's more than
anything else in life!
Toward the last semester of school I became
an EMT. I then got a job with the White Rose
Ambulance Company which mainly did routine
transport's for nursing home's but also
provided EMS for York City. After graduation
I went full time there as an EMT. I worked
a lot there and put in as much overtime as I
could. I didn't do it for the money, but for
the experience that I could get. I eventually
worked my way up to being on one of the ALS
unit's there.
I then found a job that paid a little more
at North York EMS. I started there in 1997
and grew to love that job because all I did
was emergency call's. I was also told by my
boss that when the Fire side got a call I was
to get on an engine and respond with that. I
loved it because I got to do everything that
excited me. I stayed there until I enlisted
in the U.S.ARMY.
I know that when my enlistment run's out
that I am going to return there. I will only
try for part time there now because I plan
to also have a career in Law Enforcement,
which is the whole reason why I joined the
Military.
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