comparemela.com

Latest Breaking News On - International association of fire fighters center - Page 1 : comparemela.com

Miss Florida Citrus 2024 Alana Scheuerer Embraces Special Honor

MN Hometown Heroes Program is saving lives

Wrightsville Beach Captain Jeremy Owens: Loved ones honor a legacy and hope to increase mental health awareness

[Editor s note: As a caution, this report does discuss suicide.] Wrightsville Beach Ocean Rescue lifeguards will return full-time to the beach later this month and they’ve dedicated their 2021 season to one man: Captain Jeremy Owens. We’ll hear from the guards who hope to carry on his legacy.and the family that still misses him. On Saturday, May 1st, 2021, rookies and returners came to the Crystal Pier, near the Oceanic restaurant, to compete for a spot on the Wrightsville Beach Ocean Rescue team. Tom Hanna, Wrightsville Photography Wrightsville Beach Ocean Rescue tryouts on May 1st, 2021. “So I was here actually at his first tryout, and I would come every year to tryouts, and I was so proud of him. I would usually stand underneath the Oceanic so I could watch and not interfere or get in his way, as moms can sometimes, but I wasn t one of those moms, so yeah, I do remember, and it was great,” said Debbie Owens, Jeremy’s mom, remembering her son trying out for oc

Constable: Suburban ultramarathoner with PTSD works to help firefighters under pressure

By Burt Constable His voice catches and his eyes water as Ryan Mains tells this story from his days as a combat medic in Iraq. Hearing him tell it makes me gasp and forces me to dab my eyes. Reading it might not be much easier, but it is essential to who Mains is today.   I can still see it clear as day, as if it is happening this morning, says the soft-spoken 41-year-old husband and dad, as he sits at the kitchen table in the family home in Huntley. A combat medic with the 3rd Infantry Division pushing into Baghdad at the start of the war with Iraq in the spring of 2003, Mains had near-misses with mortars and sniper bullets, and he had the grim task of realizing when to stop treatment and zip a comrade into a body bag. With the city under U.S. control, Mains was part of a team providing emergency care to the residents when he got the call about a traffic accident.

© 2025 Vimarsana

vimarsana © 2020. All Rights Reserved.