One of local firefighters dies Friday Night :(

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For those who have been following, there's a new post on my blog about the documentary that I'm shooting with the Providence, RI Fire Department.

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Well, in three weeks I'll be in Emmitsburg for the National Fallen Firefighters Memorial weekend. We weren't able to get our honor guard set up to go, so I'll be going on my own. Of the three Georgia firefighters being added this year, two of them were friends. It's important to me that I be there.

The down side of it all, is that the guy I had been planning on having as a roommate for the trip to share expenses bailed out on me. I'm still going.

I plan to leave metro-Atlanta…

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About 18 months ago we burned down a local restaurant and saved the two houses closest to it. Well last week the houses went too. Kind of suspicious. Sometimes you can't win.

We've had several automatic alarms and a mutual aid request for a house fire. Quiet, just the way us "old guys" like it.

Firefighter Kelly Page, 38, of the Lowell Fire Department died in the line of duty last night. A member of Engine 4, Page had just returned from a medical call and was checking equipment when he collapsed. Immediate life saving efforts by firefighters and paramedics were not successful.My sympathies to the family, friends and members of the Lowell Fire Department.

Funeral details will be posted as they become available.

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Lord, grant all firefighters courage to face and conquer their fears to share and endure the ordeal of those who need them.
Grant them strength of the heart and body to bear whatever burden may be placed upon them and to deliver to safety all those placed within their care ...... Give them concern for others, the compassion to comfort,and the love to serve unselfishly whenever they are called.....and PLEASE LORD...through it all, be by their sides.