by Matthew Silvan | Jun 27, 2019 | Awesome, Inspiration
Trucker Dukes was a three-year-old honorary firefighter from Maui, Hawaii. He passed away on March 3, 2017, just days away from his fourth birthday. Trucker began a lifelong battle with neuroblastoma shortly after birth. In his short time on Earth, he had an enormous...
by Joe Clark | Dec 3, 2018 | Animals
When Sacramento firefighter Mike Thawley was en route to a job on a cold, rainy October day, he didn’t know he was going to meet a new member of his family. Thawley and his partner were traveling to a job when they saw a scabby, nearly hairless dog with swollen...
by Matthew Silvan | Oct 29, 2018 | Awesome, Inspiration, Jet Netting
If you’re a fan of the hit show, “Shark Tank,” then you know it’s all about inventors pitching their ideas to a room of hungry “Sharks” who can decide to bite and fund the project, or say, “I’m out.” In what is the...
by Matthew Silvan | Oct 9, 2018 | Featured
Jessica Padgett of Evansville, Indiana expected to be married to her volunteer firefighter groom, Kendall Murphy on September 29, 2018. He died in November 2017 when another firefighter who was allegedly drunk crashed into him on their way to respond to a crash scene...
by Matthew Silvan | Sep 13, 2018 | Animals, Awesome, Inspiration
A bald eagle made the Minneapolis fire department’s annual 9/11 memorial unforgettable, perching atop the firetruck’s aerial ladder as American flags and a banner reading “We will never forget” were flown along the Main Street bridge. “What could be...