Alliance wrestling team members practice skills with Lincoln Fire and Rescue recruits on Wednesday, June 2, 2021.
The idea came to Nick Myers while he was watching âThe King of Staten Island,â a movie about a young man whose father was a firefighter who died on the job.
It got him thinking about firefighters and the work they do, which got him thinking about wrestling and the work those athletes do, and before long the Alliance High School wrestling coach was on the phone with Lincoln Fire and Rescue s Nancy Crist.
Firefighters often emphasize what happens when theyâre on a call, battling flames and saving people, he said, like wrestlers who emphasize what happens during competition.