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Staff Writer
Morning Journal/Ujhelyi
Carl Pearson holds his helmet which his colleagues at Liverpool Township Volunteer Fire Department gifted to him, after he announced his retirement.
EAST LIVERPOOL More than three decades after fulfilling a childhood dream, Carl Pearson is stepping away from his duties as a firefighter.
Pearson’s last official day is today.
A fire captain for Liverpool Township Volunteer Fire Department, serving out of the Dixonville station, it wasn’t that he just woke up one day and decided he got sick of the community service.
In a nutshell, Pearson, who joined the department in April 1990, said his health caught up to him. “I’ve gone blind in one eye (from insulin-dependent diabetes), and I’m uncertain of what will happen in my other eye. Otherwise, I wouldn’t retire. I just love to do this so much.”