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Fall 2017

CONGRATULATIONS

MARINE FIRES CONGRATULATIONS PUSHING

SCHOLARSHIP RECIPIENTS

FINANCIAL

REPORT

GRADUATES

WEBB WORLD SERIES

BOUND AGAIN

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THE FBI SPENT DECADES LOOKING FOR A MOBSTER WANTED IN A COP KILLING

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Volume 33, Number 3 The PFIA Protector is printed quarterly by the Police and Firemen’s Insurance Association. The Executive and Editorial Offices are located at 101 E. 116th Street, Carmel, IN 46032 Local: 317-581-1913 or toll-free: 1-800-221-PFIA (7342) Creative Services . . . . Rebekah Brownson

Police and Firemen’s Insurance Association President . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mark S. Kemp Senior Vice President, Executive Secretary . . . . . Peter F. Episcopo Vice President, Treasurer . . . . Tom Clines

Board of Directors Mike Carrigan . . . . . . . Littleton, Colorado Ruben Cevallos . . . . . . San Antonio, Texas Myles Christie . . . . . . . . Augusta, Georgia Tom Clines . . . . . . . . . . . . Fishers, Indiana Peter F. Episcopo . . . . . . . Carmel, Indiana Edward Griffith, III . . . . Brick, New Jersey Gerald Housel . . . . . . . . Speedway, Indiana Tom C. Jackson . . . . . . . . . Peoria, Illinois Mark S. Kemp . . . . New Palestine, Indiana

e are approaching the cool months, my absolute favorite time of the year, finishing up all the cookouts, camping, and just the freedom of the great outdoors. The transition is my favorite;

I love the beautiful colors, scenic views, taking long walks, the sound of the rustling leaves, the October sky, and that rustic aroma of the crisp fall breeze.

Ahh, it makes me happy and gives me a sense of peace. Family time is the best time, so when Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas come around, it fills my heart with joy! I love creating memories with family. Being at the home office around this time, we get together more often and catch up on the past year. Dressing up in silly costumes, the delicious food, and just enjoying one another’s company.

This issue has some really cool stories in it. You’ll be excited to read that Richard Webb has made the Junior World Series, yet again!

How cool is it that one of our very own has an opportunity like this.

Congrats Richard!

I would like to say welcome aboard to Jennifer Ireland in the accounting department. We’re happy to have her!

Also, I just want to thank everyone for your submissions and remember, I’m always here if you have any questions. You are welcome to e-mail me at rbrownson@pfia.net or give me a call at the office 317-581-1913. The winter submission deadline for articles/ pictures is November 22, 2017.

Editor/Creative Services

Steve Kemp . . . . . . . . . . . Greenfield, Indiana

Back at the Office

David G. Lentz . . . . . . . . Slidell, Louisiana Alan Melancon . . . . New Orleans, Louisiana Steve D. Murphy . . . . . . Indianapolis, Indiana Don Trejbal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Akron, Ohio Salvatore Valvo . . . . . Lancaster, New York Legal Counsel . . . . . . . . . . John D. Hoover E. Davis Coots Donald J. Pistillo Lawrence W. Schmits ­Actuary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Steve Griffith Griffith, Ballard & Company

“Out with the old, and in with the new! PFIA officially retires the ‘White Golf Cap’ in great fashion.”–Cristian White.

Pictured: Jeanie Williams, Amanda Phillabaum, Rebekah Brownson, and Cristian White.

Office visit from one of our PFIA Agents, Lane Herklotz. Front row: Rebekah Brownson, Jeanie Williams, Lane Herklotz, Nancy Brown, Tanyia Elston. Back row: Jennifer Ireland, Rex Herklotz, and Amanda Phillabaum.

CONTENT

COVER STORY

28 A KIND HEART AND A LONG WAY In the event of any extreme weather situation or natural disaster, for example Hurricane Harvey, first responders will encounter the same issues as the rest of the affected individuals. That’s when you know, even 850 miles away, as a first responder that you have to spring into action and help out our fellow Americans.

FEATURES

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DEPARTMENTS

4 HEROES HALL OF FAME 6 IN THE SPIRIT OF BROTHERHOOD 9 PFIA REMEMBERS

18 TIMELINE 30 THE BODY SHOP 34 MERITORIOUS SERVICE AWARD 38 SWAP SHOP

2 WEBB WORLD SERIES BOUND, AGAIN

40 ODDS N ENDS

PFIA agent and 32-year veteran umpire will call games at the 2017 Little League Junior Softball World Series in Kirkland, Washington.

42 CHILI & DONUTS

10 CONGRATULATIONS SCHOLARSHIP RECIPIENTS 100 Scholarship recipients of 2017 16 CONGRATULATIONS GRADUATES

41 UNIT CITATION AWARD 44 HOME OFFICE/REGIONAL MANAGER DIRECTORY 45 ABM/AR DIRECTORY 49 MISSING & EXPLOITED CHILDREN

Congratulations to all the graduates of 2016-2017!

22 PUSHING THROUGH As a firefighter, you see all kinds of tragedies, but when it’s your own family, it’s different.

24 The FBI spent decades searching for a mobster wanted in a cop killing.

Investigators picked through the home of Donald Eugene Webb, they found something that wasn’t supposed to be there.

26 MARINE FIRES Whether it’s a fire on your own boat, or a vessel you are escorting or working with, you will need to know what you are doing if you wish to operate it safely.

32 FINANCIAL REPORT

28 ON THE COVER Evansville, Indiana, lending a helping hand to those in need in Texas.

Statutory statement from audited year ending December 31, 2016, Statements of Operations and Changes in Surplus.

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n a sports landscape dominated by egos and “look at me” personalities, Richard Webb is perfectly happy to be completely unknown.

Webb is a PFIA agent, an umpire, and he’s content to be performing his job in complete anonymity.

In fact, that’s how he prefers it because, as the old saying goes, the best compliment any umpire can receive is that no one even noticed he was there.

“The next to last night in the Senior League (World Series) finals, I had the host team from Delaware and they were playing the team from Utah,” Webb said, recalling one of his favorite memories of his complete anonymity. “It was a beautiful night and the game lasted an hour and 10 minutes. It was a no-hitter.

“I walked off the field and nobody knew I was there. All I did was call balls and strikes and outs.

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Wo rld b oun Ser Nobody knew I was there. ies d, “It was all about the kids winning. aga And that’s great.”

Webb, 62, did mire in anonymity i n on an international level for the fourth time in his long career of calling balls and strikes.

The 32-year veteran umpire called the games at the 2017 Little League Junior Softball World Series in Kirkland, Washington.

It was Webb’s fourth softball World Series appearance.

“It’s a tremendous honor,” Webb said about getting the call to do another World Series. “In this area, we have 60 to 80 umpires.

Just to be selected from that to go to state is a great honor. At state, we had 25 or 26 umpires.

From state, only five or six will get a recommendation to go to a regional.”

Webb has been calling games

since 1985, including the last 25 years in Beeville, Texas, for the local Little League.

As a Little League umpire, he’s worked 24 district tournaments, 18 state tournaments and nine regional tournaments.

His three previous World Series assignments came in 2003, 2007 and 2012.

He called the Big League World Series in Kalamazoo, Michigan, in 2003, the Major League World Series in Portland, Oregon, in 2007, and the Senior League World Series in Lower Sussex, Delaware, in 2012.

This year’s World Series will be Webb’s last in softball, though.

Little League limits its umpires to one World Series appearance in each division, and Webb will complete the rotation with his Junior League assignment this year.

Webb isn’t done calling games, however.

Now, he’s turning his attention to landing the most important assignment in Little League umpiring: the Major League Baseball World Series in South Williamsport, Pennsylvania.

“It is a dream,” Webb said about working that World Series, which is televised by ESPN every August. “On the baseball side of it, there is a lot more competition.

So, basically, I’m starting my competition at age 62. I’m 30 years behind some of these guys.

“Somebody has to be there to help the kids,” he said. “The kids are our future. ... I’m doing it for the kids. I love those kids. “... About 15 or 16 years ago, I had an experience at a state tournament. I had a real bad year. I was very seriously contemplating giving it up. I went to Waco (for the tournament), and had one of those games. It was 110 degrees on the field and it was like 22-0. It was just a severe blowout.

wrapped her arms around my legs and said, ‘Thank you for being here.’ “... That just turned it for me. I’m going to be there for those kids. ... I’m here because they need me. Somebody has to be there for those kids.”

Keller, Kevin J. “Webb World Series Bound Again.” BeePicayune [Beeville] 28 July 2017 Published: Section A, Page 11.

“And I was thinking, ‘What am I doing here?’ “... Then one of the girls on the losing team came up to me and recognized me, and she just

“I might be on a walker when I get there, but I’m hoping to still get there.”

Webb’s passion for baseball and softball started in 1963 when he played his first Little League game in the Freeway American Little League in Houston.

He started coaching the game in 1975 and then started umpiring in 1985 in Huntsville.

“I’m here me. S because omeb t ody h hey need there as to for th be ose k ids.”

Seven years later, he landed in Beeville. Since then, he’s served on the board for Beeville Little League as a player agent and as the league’s umpire-in-chief.

He’s also spent time as a high school and junior college umpire in both baseball and softball.

And he does it all for one reason.

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The initial assessment of this incident is extremely frightening for law enforcement that encountered an exchange of gunfire and survived. www.polkcountytoday.com

Into the Ship’s Path Titusville, Florida – On March 11, 2017, SeaPort Security Marine Deputy Taner Primmer was providing a security escort for a cruise ship when he was able to avert a tragedy and save two vacationers who were riding a Jet Ski. The incident took place when two women, both of Princeton, West Virginia, were enjoying spring break and operating a Jet Ski in Port Canaveral. One of the riders fell from the Jet Ski and upon trying to climb back onboard, the Jet Ski flipped upside down. As the two frantically tried to right the Jet Ski, the wind pushed them into the Port channel, directly into the path of the outgoing cruise ship.

Due to the narrow width of the Port’s channel, there was very little room to maneuver the ship; however, Port Canaveral Harbor Pilot Captain Doug Brown slightly veered the ship when Deputy Primmer steered his boat into the path of the ship and quickly pulled the two women onboard the Sheriff’s Office Safe Boat. Once safely onboard, Deputy Primmer immediately backed the Safe Boat out of the

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Honor and Praise Threatening Call Polk County, Texas – On March 7, 2017, Deputy Josh Sanders was working patrol and was assigned a threatening report in a subdivision.

Deputy Sanders responded to the residence, which was occupied by one adult, two adult females, and three small toddler-age children.

The information received was that an estranged ex-boyfriend was coming over to the residence and had been told not to. In the process he had made threats of violence when he arrived.

Deputy Sanders had completed his investigation and was about to leave the residence when the suspect arrived at the residence and pulled in behind Deputy Sanders’ vehicle. Deputy Sanders had attempted to approach the suspect when he opened fire on him. Sanders took cover in front of his patrol vehicle and began returning fire. Gunfire between Sanders and the suspect continued for minutes until the suspect pulled away from the residence.

Deputy Sanders pursued the suspect in his heavily damaged patrol vehicle. The suspect attempted to return to the residence, but with Sanders in pursuit, the suspect continued to flee in his vehicle away from the residence approaching the entrance of the subdivision, where he crashed his vehicle. Sanders held cover over the suspect until more deputies could arrive, where he was taken into custody.

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ship’s path and into an area of safety. Were it not for the quick actions of both Deputy Primmer and Port Canaveral Harbor Pilot Captain Doug Brown, the women could have been pulled under the ship, causing potentially serious if not fatal injuries.

These men placed their lives in peril without hesitation to rescue the Port visitors, maintained adequate communication, and were able to safely veer the ship to save the women. Great job!

http://news.brevardtimes.com/

Floating in the River Jacksonville, Florida – On June 6, 2017, the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office received reports of a body floating in the St. Johns River.

Sgt. Billy Irvin was the first to respond to the 911 call and upon arrival took off his boots and dove into the river. When he got to the body in the middle of the river, he found a woman still alive.

Three construction workers also saw what was going on and assisted recovering the victim from the water onto their boat.

The 29-year-old woman was suffering from hypothermia and taken to a hospital, according to the police report. She told officers she did not want to kill herself and that she just wanted to go for a swim. But further investigation showed that officers had been called an hour earlier to her west side home in reference to a person making suicidal threats. Thanks

to quick action without hesitation from Sgt. Irvin, this woman was able to be rescued and get the help she needs.

prior burglary charges for which he was found guilty, one in 2010 and one in 2006. He was also found guilty of dealing in stolen property in 2010 and violating his parole in 2007. In 2008, he was found guilty on a charge of resisting an officer.

The blaze broke out around 4 p.m.

Deputy Davis pulled the 53-yearold woman out of the burning home. She was flown to a hospital http://jacksonville.com/ in Savannah, Georgia, where she Shot in Pursuit was immediately transported to a Jacksonville, Florida – On July burn unit hospital in Augusta.

25, 2017, an 11-year veteran of The victim suffered from smoke the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office, http://www.firstcoastnews.com/ inhalation, as well as burn K-9 Officer Jeremy Mason, Only Smoke injuries sustained during the fire. was in pursuit. A man who was Springfield, Georgia – The Unfortunately, she succumbed to the suspect in two local bank Effingham County Sheriff’s Office her injuries. robberies that week shot him in and Effingham Fire responded to a Rincon and Effingham County the chin. structure fire on July 28, 2017. fire crews remained on scene with Police said the K-9 officer spotted ECSO Deputy Sheriff Paul Davis the Effingham County Sheriff’s the suspect in a vehicle that was happened to be at the right place Office and Effingham Fire. wanted in connection with the two at the right time. He says when he Deputy Davis’ quick thinking local bank robberies. possibly saved While he was calling a woman’s for backup, the suspect life. To many, exited the original Deputy Davis vehicle and got into a is a hero. But small silver car being to him, this was driven by a woman just another and took off. Police day. were in the area “That’s my job, looking for the suspect to help people,” based off of tips that said Deputy they received about his Sheriff Davis. location via the public.

Fire officials As police pursued say the home the suspect, he began is a total loss. leaning out of the back No word yet windows, shooting at Left to right: Officer Josh Chatting, PFIA Rep. Jason Roehm, and Officer Andrew Jenkins. (2017 Summer issue, Heroes Hall of Fame, page 3, Saved from a on how the fire the officers. Mason started.

Burning Building.) was struck in the chin www.wbtv.com by a bullet that came got to the house, the only thing he in through his windshield but could see was smoke. He made continued to pursue him. his way around back, and was able The pursuit stopped when the to open the door. He noticed a suspects’ car blew through a stop woman lying on the ground next to sign and collided with another the stove. car, unrelated to the incident. The That’s when training and years of suspect got out of his car and was experience kicked in. instructed to drop his weapon. He “It was hard to breathe. I just failed to comply and shot at the got down as low as I could and officers. At this point, the officers that’s when I saw her up against shot back and killed him. the stove and I was just elbowing The suspect was a previous my way in,” said Deputy Sheriff offender. His record shows two Davis.

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IN THE SPIRIT OF BROTHERHOOD...OUR FRATERNAL SIDE

COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT

Fraternal Events Ann Arbor Firefighter/PFIA Agent Chris McGlothin giving fellow Ann Arbor Firefighter/PFIA member George Allard his accident claim check.

Ann Arbor Firefighter/PFIA Agent Chris McGlothin presenting a claim check to Ann Arbor Firefighter/PFIA member Matt Francis.

PFIA Agent Jason Roehm presenting a check to the Mike Curry Swim Safety Day event. Mike was a firefighter in Savannah, Georgia who died in the line of duty in November 2016. This event is being put on to help local Boy Scouts and Cub Scouts earn their swim badge and to teach them water safety. Thank you Miranda Fisher, Tracey Whitley and Jeremy Kemp for letting PFIA be a part of this great event and honoring our fallen brother Mike Curry.

Tony Ragans presents a sponsor check to Steve Myers for the 3rd annual Guns N Hoses Hockey Event. All proceeds go to support firefighter charities in Jacksonville, Florida.

Police and Firemen’s Insurance Association donating a check to Heels and Halligans foundation to bring awareness of PTSD for firefighters, EMS, and police officers and that there is always help out there.

Myles Christie presents plaques from PFIA at Augusta Fire Department recruit graduation. EMS award to Derrick Walter and Matthew Wieberdink.

Academic award to Matthew Wieberdink and Drake Broadway.

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PFIA Agent Jason Roehm presenting a check donation to Richmond Hill Fire Department.

Police and Firemen’s Insurance Association donation to Lt. Greene from Richmond Hill Fire Department for their BBQ cook off. All proceeds will go to help buy Christmas presents and food for families that are in need. Great job on putting this event together and letting PFIA be a part of this.

“Each Other’s Keeper”

Police and Firemen’s Insurance Association presenting a check to the Defenders LE/MC for their poker run to promote motorcycle safety, and to help raise money for a deputy officer who was in a motorcycle accident late last year. Thank you Defenders MC for letting us be a part of your event.

2017 Carnival with a Cop. Pictured: Lt. Aaron Piekarski, Summit

County Sheriff, Sgt. Erik Wells, Akron Police Dept., PFIA Director Don Trejbal, and Deputy Chief at City of Akron Kenneth Ball.

PFIA Agent Cindy Arnold presenting a check to provide fried chicken for Officer Appreciation Week to Warden Cato from the Coffield Unit of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.

Columbus Fire Academy Awards Class in Columbus, Ohio, on July 27, 2017. Pictured:

Ryan Brotherton, Vincent Noria, John Carpenter, PFIA Agent Bill Caprettta, Robert Carlson, Elizabeth Finnegan, and Zachary Hensley.

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May 8-12th was Corrections Officer Appreciation Week in Texas. PFIA Agent/Correctional Officer Cindy Arnold presenting PFIA gift bags and prizes that she donated for door prizes at the Gurney Unit, where she is a Corrections Officer.

On June 24, 2017, four PFIA municipalities in Connecticut took part in a basketball tournament to benefit the Mark Carr Scholarship foundation. It was again another successful event which included teams from the New Britain Police and Fire Department as well as the New Haven and Hartford Fire Departments. The finale game came down to New Britain Fire vs. Hartford Fire with the winner of this year’s tournament being the Hartford Fire Department.

Left Picture: Hartford PFIA Agent Ed Machial and New Britain PFIA Agent Tim Cyr. Right Picture: PFIA Agent Ed Machial with the Hartford Fire Department winning team and their trophy.

20th Annual Milwaukee Police Association golf outing.

Photo to the Left: MPA President Mike Crivello, State Representative Samantha Kerkman, Vidal Colon.

Photo to the Right: Retired Police Officer Dennis Wallich, State Representative Samantha Kerkman, Sgt. Roberto Colon.

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PFIA REMEMBERS OUR FALLEN HEROES

WE PAY OUR RESPECTS TO OUR

FALLEN HEROES Scott Deem - May 18, 2017 San Antonio Fire Department (TX) 6-year veteran Firefighter Scott Deem died from injuries received while operating at a four-alarm fire in a shopping center. Fire crews were searching a gym in the strip mall for any possible occupants as fire conditions rapidly intensified and the structure began to collapse. All firefighters were ordered to exit the building but Deem was unable to do so before becoming caught and trapped. Crews continued to battle the fire but due to the conditions, they were unable to reach Firefighter Deem. According to initial reports, another member of the initial search team was also trapped in the fire but was pulled to safety along with an injured member of the Rapid Intervention Team. The two injured firefighters were transported to the hospital, where one remains in critical but stable condition.

Edward Switalski - June 14, 2017 Comstock Township Dept. Fire and Rescue (MI) 25-year veteran Chief Edward Switalski responded with the Comstock Township Department of Fire and Rescue to a reported motor vehicle accident.

Upon arrival, they found an empty vehicle and no injuries to report. As fire crews were getting ready to leave the scene, a passing vehicle lost control and struck Chief Switalski, who was standing at the rear of his rescue vehicle returning equipment to service.

Crews at the scene tried to revive him, but were not successful. Chief Switalski was pronounced dead at the scene.

The inmate, who was in jail for failing to register as a sex offender, attacked Officer Moules. The two crashed through an elevator door and fell several floors to the bottom of the elevator shaft. Officer Moules was transported to a local hospital where, he was pronounced dead. The inmate also died as a result of the fall.

Aaron Allan - July 27, 2017 Southport Police Department (IN) 20-year veteran Lieutenant Aaron Allan was shot and killed after responding to a crash involving an overturned vehicle at an intersection in Homecroft.

He and a Homecroft officer arrived at the scene and began to check on two occupants. Lieutenant Allan crawled into the car to check on the driver, who was stuck upside down in his seat belt. As Lieutenant Allan then crawled back out to check on the passenger, the driver grabbed a gun and opened fire, striking Lieutenant Allan 14 times.

The Homecroft officer and an off-duty reserve deputy from the Johnson County Sheriff's Office returned fire and wounded the man before taking him into custody.

Lieutenant Allan was transported to Eskenazi Hospital, where he succumbed to his injuries.

Kristopher D. Moules - June 18, 2017 Luzerne Co. Correctional Facility (PA) 10-month veteran Corrections Officer Kristopher Moules died after he and an inmate fell down an elevator shaft during a struggle inside of the Luzerne County Correctional Facility.

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Taylor Abeita Jordyn Abrams Hayley E. Adkins Arapahoe Community Fort Lewis College OH State University College Nursing Environmental Nursing Science nce again, Police and Firemen’s Insurance Association has awarded 100 children, step-children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren of PFIA members with scholarships this year.

The scholarships amount to $1,500 per year, and are renewable for three more years, provided eligibility requirements are continually met.

To avoid bias, winning students are selected by Scholarship America®; employees of PFIA do not participate.

Scholarship America bases their decision on the students’ academic performance, demonstrated leadership abilities, and participation in school and community activities.

Considerations are also based on work experience, unusual personal or family circumstances, letters of recommendation, and a statement of the applicant’s goals and aspirations. All of this information is confidential. Conditions and procedures under which awards are granted are reviewed occasionally by PFIA.

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Abigail L. Allen NE Wesleyan University Nursing/Spanish

Veronica Bido Rutgers, The State University of NJ Political Science

Janelle J. Benton Tuskegee University Veterinary Science

Rebekah Brodbeck GA State University Psychology

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Dylan L. Buck Syracuse University Env. Science

Jackson Burkmire University of Indianapolis Political Science

Johnathan Chesney University of MI Electrical Engineering

Erica R. Cipoletta Marist College Fashion Merch.

Sydnee Clark SE LA University Athletic Training

Ty Corrigan IA State University Engineering

Mackenzie Darling SUNY at Albany Pub. Health/Philosophy

John Drummond Post University Accounting/Finance

Jordan A. Dye OH State Univ.

Nursing

Jillian R. English Niagara University Early Childhood Ed.

Khristina Erickson Purdue University Animal Science

Sarah M. Estrada University of TX Mass Comm.

Kelly R. Fay WV Wesleyan College Biochem./Pre-Vet

Angelica R. Flores SW University English/Religion

Karlie R. Gambino Univ. of Pittsburgh Neuroscience

Elizabeth Gavin University of Iowa Biology/Pre-Opt.

Diego Gonzalez University of TX Business

Lea Gray Christian Brothers University Chemical Eng.

Ethan D. Gruber OH State University Political Science

Kinley Hamilton Bowling Green State University Psychology

Claire R. Harper University of MS Business

Daniel W. Harty Syracuse University Broadcast Journalism

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Hayden Holloway University of LA Radiology

Ashlyn Hovan Providence College Psychology

Liam D. Ireland University of Northern CO Athletic Training

Amanda Jamison University of NE Pre-Nursing

Kaitlynn Johnson University of NE Psychology

Alayna Klemenc West Coast Baptist College English Education

Olivia Korte Indiana University Pre-Med

Luke C. Kraeszig Franklin College Exercise Science

Brittany Ladd Wright State Univ.

Computer Science

Darci Lange University of Iowa Pre-Med

Nolan Laughlin John Carroll Univ.

Pediatric Medicine

Casey M. Lehman Univ. of Southern IN Art/Business

Joshua R. Leslie Univ. of Hartford Jazz Studies

Jacob C. Leverton Indiana University English

Ryan M. Lotocki Loyola University Global Studies

Maya Love Claremont McKenna College Intl. Relations

Kayla Martello Quinnipiac University Physician Assistant

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Erin M. Hirz Marist College Fine Arts-Studio

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Adam R. McCarthy University of IL Engineering

Annaliese Micozzi University of Akron Nursing

Nicholas D. Miller CO State University Forestry

Paige E. Mobley OH State University Speech & Hearing Science

Abigail L. Moody Northwestern College Theatre

Yvette M. Moore Rutgers, The State University of NJ Undecided

Julia M. Mullins Hillsdale College Biochemistry

Mariah A. Murray Anderson University Business/Spanish

Julia R. Nekola University of NE Secondary Education

Allison O’Leary University of CO Int. Psychology

Nathaniel J. Otts University of AL Civil Engineering

Addison E. Paul Ball State Univ.

Creative Writing/ English

Ebbie A. Pell MN State University Elementary Ed.

Bradley J. Perry Millikin University Music Education

Riley C. Peterson Pittsburg State University Nursing

Caira M. Pettway Baylor University Accounting

Alexander Pfeifer University of MN Aero. Engineering

Kyle Poland University of RI Mechanical Engineering

Lauren E. Ramelb University of NE Biology

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“Receiving this scholarship will help reduce my financial burdens and provide assistance for me as I pursue my education.”

-Caira Pettway

Austin P. Rook KS State University Mechanical Engineering

Jessica N. Sackal Fairfield University Business

Rory Sanabria SUNY College Economics

Haylie A. Sapp WV University Forensic Science

Claire M. Scahill Indiana University Recreational Therapy

Gene Scott Monmouth University Health Studies

Hayden D. Sebold University of MO Business

Megan L. Selby Wittenberg University Bus./Marketing

Daniel A. Shaw FL State University Computer Science

Natalie Shearer University of Iowa Nursing

Haley N. Shepherd University of MO Nursing

Sydnee Shumaker University of Mount Union Nursing

Gabrielle N. Sirolli La Salle University Speech Pathology

Allison R. Skoog University of CT Nursing

Tedris T. Smith II LA Tech University Civil Engineering

Joey R. Stefanko Miami University Finance/Business Legal

Julia N. Stema MI State University Journalism

Class of

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Derek K. Reed University of Toledo Chemical Eng.

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Michael Tallman Purdue University Mechanical Eng.

Michaela Tangredi Clarkson University Mechanical Eng.

Austin M. Tanner MI State University Mechanical Eng.

Isabella Tassiello Kent State Univ.

Nursing

Allison E. Tenney University of Akron Pre-Med

Savannah Townsend University of AL Nursing

Lauren Vegh Kent State University Nursing

David P. Weller OH State University Exercise Science

Matthew J. Weller Stark State College Welding Certification

Macey A. Wiebe NE Wesleyan University Biology

Kira Wiederrich University of CO Engineering

Brian M. Wilcox Miami University Finance

Alexander Wilgocki Syracuse University Intl. Relations

Emily S. Wilgocki Endicott College Biology/BioTechnology

Caitlin Williams Penn State Univ.

Park Bio-behavioral Health

Florian Wurtele University of NE Biochemistry

“I am very grateful for this opportunity you have given me. I will continue to persevere and live a life of hard work and community service.”

-Kyle Poland

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Congratulations Graduates!

Recipients

Scholarship

Arenas Luke Atzhorn Zane Auble Amanda Auble Kristine Bajema Jeffrey Benton Jessica Biery Matthew Binger Kole Bippert Kyndal Blask Krista Blythe Kristin Bryant Corey Bunting Alec Burnett Aimee Callahan Erin Capone Daniel Carlson Nicole Carlson Savannah-Anne Chudzik Braden Cipoletta Ariel Clear Lissa Contreras Emma Conway Mikayla Cordasco Rachel Cox Quinton Derrig Megan Dippel Alyssa Dolin-Stevens Alexis Donovan Shawn Dunham Erica Ensalaco Christa Ertle Leanne Flauto Marc Gilbeaux Troy Glyder Kaylee Gonnello Anthony Goodman Rhett Guidry Jasmine Guy Joseph Haisma Kendra Houser Gabriella Huber Meagan Hur Marisa Jackson Jace Jimerson Wade Kapsner Elizabeth Kelsey Karen Kidwell Katelyn Kohnke Jeffrey Lamson Thomas Laramore Jacob

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College Attended

2013 Colorado State U - Global Campus 2013 Taylor University 2013 Johns Hopkins University 2013 University of Maryland 2013 Illinois State University 2013 Georgia State University 2012 Colorado State University 2013 University of Wisconsin 2013 University of Texas at Austin 2013 Gannon University 2013 University of Texas at Dallas 2013 Kent State University 2012 University of Iowa 2013 Colorado State University 2012 Rowan University 2013 Drexel University 2013 University of Nebraska Medical Center 2014 University of Colorado Boulder 2012 Rochester Institute of Technology 2012 New York University 2012 Whatcom Community College 2012 University of Minnesota 2013 Indiana University Bloomington 2012 Misericordia University 2012 Rice University 2012 Walsh University 2012 University of Nebraska 2012 Ohio Northern University 2012 University of Pittsburgh 2012 Hope College 2012 University of Florida 2012 Regis University 2012 Youngstown State University 2012 Texas State University 2012 University of Florida 2012 Northwest Missouri State University 2012 Florida State University 2012 Prairie View A&M University 2012 Missouri State University 2012 Grand Valley State University 2012 Marist College 2012 University of Colorado 2012 Michigan State University 2012 University of Denver 2012 Texas A&M University 2012 Indiana University Bloomington 2012 Crown College 2012 Florida State University 2012 SUNY University at Buffalo 2012 St. John’s University 2012 Northeastern Junior College

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TIMELINE

PRESERVING THE HISTORY OF

First Responders Evolution of the Ambulance Throughout history, men devised methods to transport the ill and injured. Hammocks were readily available and used for centuries.

During the time of the Romans and Greeks, chariots served as ambulances. In 900 A.D. attendants used a wagon with hammocks in it. While this was a step forward, these wagons lacked effective brakes. Imagine swinging back and forth or traveling downhill in one of these conveyances. In 1100 A.D. the Normans arrived in England with the innovative horse litter. These units consisted of two horses with special harnesses that suspended a bed between them.

The most common definition for ambulance is a vehicle that transports sick or wounded people. However, historians include Ferdinand and Isabella’s contribution when describing the word ambulance. In the late 1400s they introduced ambulancias or field hospitals. This was the first time medical and surgical supplies were put in special tents to treat the wounded. But it took another three hundred years before troops wounded in battle were brought to the field hospitals and aid came to those who could not be moved.

Dominique Jean Larrey, a French surgeon, worked on the battlefields in the 1700s. He saw

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first-hand the need for care as soon as possible. Prior to this time army regulations required that the clumsy, heavy hospital wagons were stationed at the rear of the armies. Larrey developed lightweight, two-wheeled wagons.

Not only did they take the wounded to the hospital but they also brought the surgeons to the battlefield. These became known as “flying ambulances” because they stayed with the “flying artillery” on the battlefield.

Pack animals often served as ambulances.

Horses, mules and camels carried the injured for care.

Attached to them were litters or chairs, also known as cacolets.

These held one or two soldiers.

Over time the apparatus grew more elaborate as men sought to create safer and smoother rides.

The Civil War showed the glaring need to improve care for the wounded. According to reports, none of casualties in the 1st Battle of Bull Run traveled by ambulance to Washington but

some walked the twenty-seven miles for treatment. Those first assigned to remove the wounded were regimental musicians or soldiers who were not good fighters. These soldiers were placed on ambulance duty and served as medical assistants.

During 1861, these men helped themselves to medicinal liquor or ignored the wounded to stay out of the line of fire. Surgeons treated only the soldiers who belonged to their regiment, but the number of casualties became overwhelming.

Charles S. Tripler, who served as Surgeon General of the Army of the Potomac Medical Department, tried to improve the situation but when he was unsuccessful, Dr. Jonathan Letterman was appointed to his position on July 4, 1862.

Letterman graduated from medical school in 1849 and entered the military the same year. Until 1861 he served on the western and southwestern frontiers and was present during the wars with the Indians. The experience he gained treating and transporting the injured proved invaluable.

Under Dr. Letterman’s program, Medical Department officers selected soldiers who participated in the care and delivery of the wounded. Stretcher-bearers delivered the injured to primary centers. After rudimentary treatment, ambulances carried the

patients to field hospitals and then later moved them to the general hospitals by ambulances, rail cars or boats.

A train’s facilities could range from a bed of straw or hay on the floor of a freight car to a passenger car made by the railroad manufacturers to deliver the wounded. Another possibility was a car with bunks or with litters attached to supports that had springs or rubber to absorb the movement of the car. Some trains served only as a large ambulance while others had cars with kitchens, storerooms, medical supplies and operating facilities. As with the trains water travel could range from a boat pressed into service to move the injured to steamboats outfitted as hospitals. Some could accommodate hundreds of men.

Both the train and ship were new ways for the military to care for the wounded.

In 1864, Congress passed the Ambulance Corps Act. This was also called “An Act to Establish a Uniform System of Ambulances in the Armies of the United States.” No longer were ambulances a part of the general transportation system. They now fell under the jurisdiction of the head of the medical department, who was responsible for all aspects of the ambulance service: its administration, personnel and vehicles. To identify the ambulance corps, special uniforms were designed and the ambulances were marked with distinct labels.

This program became a model that was emulated throughout the world until World War I. The Geneva Convention of 1864

was an international meeting called to reach an agreement for the treatment of the wounded and their caregivers on the battleground and at the hospitals.

All of these individuals were granted neutrality. Included in the treaty were sanitary supplies, equipment and ambulances. A protective sign was adopted, now recognized worldwide as the Red Cross. (While the Red Cross Organization is international, each nation has its own independent societies, to serve the needs of that particular country.) Over the years the scope of the Geneva Conventions broadened to include the sick at sea, prisoners of war and protection of civilians.

Many hospitals that ministered to Civil War soldiers kept their ambulance service after the war.

Records show that an Ohio hospital, Commercial Hospital (now known as Cincinnati General Hospital), had the first service for the general public in 1865. The ambulance driver’s annual income was $360.

In New York, Dr. Edward B. Dalton, who had served as an army surgeon, founded an ambulance service at Bellevue.

Begun in 1869, it had 1,401 calls in 1870, and by 1891 that number increased to 4,392. While this increase is noteworthy, five other hospitals in New York City also provided ambulance service by 1891. Bellevue’s

ambulances assigned doctors or surgeons to accompany them.

The vehicles were well equipped with stretchers, handcuffs and straitjackets. Located under the driver’s seat were a box with brandy, two tourniquets, six bandages, sponges, splint material and a small bottle of persulphate of iron. The lightweight carriage weighed between six hundred and eight hundred pounds and had a moveable floor that could be drawn out to receive the patient.

Drivers earned an annual salary of $500 including room and board.

Horses were stabled close to the hospital and like the fire service used special harnesses to attach the animals to the vehicle and get them on the street as soon as possible. Other public ambulance services connected to hospitals sprang up in Liverpool, Great Britain, and in cities around the United States.

In 1899, the first motorized ambulance came on the scene.

Made in Chicago and donated by five businessmen to Michael Reese Hospital, it weighed sixteen hundred pounds and traveled at sixteen miles an hour. In 1900, New York’s St. Vincent Hospital obtained its first horseless vehicle. Katherine Barkley includes this quote from The New York Herald in The Ambulance: “An ambulance of this kind [motorized] possesses many advantages over its horsedrawn prototype. A greater speed is attainable; and there is more ease and safety for the patient; it may be stopped within its own length when running at full speed, and on account of its weight it runs with greater smoothness.”

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engines and had the capability of traveling as far as twenty to thirty miles. The doctor in the back of the vehicle could communicate with the driver via a speaking tube. These came equipped with electric lights, both inside and outside, with a ten-candlepower intensity. A well-known manufacturer of ambulances was Hess and Eisenhardt of Cincinnati, Ohio. They first began building ambulances in 1890 and produced a motor-driven ambulance in 1906. In 1937, they built the first air-conditioned ambulance in America. This company, now known as O’Gara-Hess and Eisenhardt, no longer makes ambulances but produces armored vehicles for passengers.

When World War I began some ambulances were still horsedriven. But as war continued buses were put into service and Parisian taxis were adapted to serve as ambulances. When the United States entered the war they brought Model T Fords with them for many purposes.

The framing on those used as ambulances was increased to provide adequate space for the litters. These vehicles could travel as fast as 45 miles an hour and served well on the rough terrain.

The 1915 ambulances had painted canvas stretched across a frame, but the following year light wooden slats were added to the frame and then canvas placed over them. One thousand vehicles were manufactured before America entered the war. As the war progressed the United States made more of these units and distributed the bodies to the British and French and they put their own identifying marks on the canvas.

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During the 1920’s the ambulances were put to use on military airfields in the United States.

Transport by air for the wounded actually began before World War I. A Dutchman named DeMooy thought hot air balloons would prove useful. His idea was to suspend a giant stretcher under the balloon and have horses haul it.

During the Great War the French Air Service is credited with the first use of an air ambulance when a Serbian officer was taken from the field to a hospital. “Records kept by the French at the time indicated that, if casualties could be evacuated by air within six hours of injury, the mortality rate among the wounded would fall from 60 percent to less than 10 percent a staggering reduction!”

(Air Ambulance). The British first used an air ambulance in 1917, reducing a trip that would have taken three days by land to a forty-five-minute flight.

While aircraft were used to take the injured for care it wasn’t until the late 1920s that the planes were specifically outfitted as ambulances. In 1928 the Australians ran an air ambulance service. It held a pilot, doctor, and nurse and had space for one stretcher patient. During its first year of operation, it treated 225 patients traveling 200,000 miles.

This organization is known as The Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia and still exists today.

The United States Air Corps designed three planes to perform as ambulances in 1929. These carried two patients on stretchers, a pilot and an attendant. The first reported case of the British using air ambulances for the general public was in 1933 when a patient on the verge of peritonitis was flown to a hospital.

During World War II various countries provided vehicles to use as ambulances. The United States converted a Dodge truck with a six-cylinder engine that had four forward speeds and weighed half a ton. The British used the Rover 9 on the front lines. It had space for two stretchers, or one stretcher and three seated wounded, or six seated wounded. Another British ambulance used by the Allied troops was the Bedford. The nineteen-foot-long Bedford had a four-stretcher capacity or could accommodate ten seated wounded.

Another type of ambulance used during the war was the half-track configuration (these had wheels and tracks or were amphibious vehicles). The half-tracks were put to good use over rough terrain and along the beaches.

Helicopters first arrived on the scene in 1907 but Paul Cornu’s model was not usable. The man credited for producing a successful helicopter is Igor Sikorsky, a Russian-born American. Sikorsky entered the United States to work in aviation but was unable to find employment. He first started working on helicopters in 1910 but it wasn’t until 1939 that his craft flew successfully. Sikorsky is credited with the following quote: “If a man is in need of

rescue, an airplane can come in and throw flowers on him, and that’s just about all. But a direct lift aircraft could come in and save his life.” (http://www. sikorskyarchives.com/indexlnk. html) Helicopters were used for medical evacuation during World War II. In 1944, a helicopter in New York carried blood plasma to a hospital in New Jersey that was treating victims of a steamship explosion. It wasn’t long before both military and civilian agencies utilized helicopters for rescues and evacuations. Today helicopters continue to provide an invaluable service in the care and transport of critically ill patients to trauma centers throughout the world.

“Gradually, especially during and after World War II, hospitals and physicians faded from prehospital practice, yielding in urban areas to centrally coordinated programs.

These were often controlled by the municipal hospital or fire department, whose use of ‘inhalators’ was met with widespread public acceptance.”

(Annotated [sic] History and Bibliography [sic] of EMS, link no longer active as of December 2007) Nationwide, the hearse often served as an ambulance.

Or the local ambulance was a converted hearse, designed to deliver a patient as quickly as possible. The ambulances had space for the patient to lie down but lacked room for an attendant to ride in the back with them.

Texas passed legislation in 1947 to regulate their ambulance operators. They were required to carry a traction splint, oxygen and minimal first aid equipment and their workers needed to have first aid training. The philosophy at

this time was that emergency care began when the victim or injured person arrived at the hospital.

In the late 1950s and the 1960s, two key advancements: — mouth-to-mouth resuscitation and closed cardiac massage — caused medical professionals to recognize the impact of having trained community members in the field who could respond quickly to medical emergencies.

The physicians came to the realization that treatment at the scene, especially for heart attacks, could make the difference between life and death. At the same time, statistics recorded 50,000 fatalities from automobile accidents. The federal government saw an urgent need for changes in emergency care and transportation in communities and provided funding. Emergency Medical Services Programs began around the country. There are excellent resources that provide a history of these programs.

In 1965 The Accidental Death & Disability Paper stated that the style of ambulance in current use (station wagon or limousine chassis) was inadequate. More space was needed for the patient, attendant and equipment. Four years later a report titled “Medical Requirements for Ambulance Design and Equipment” was submitted to the Department of Transportation-National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. The 1973 EMS Systems Act, passed in 1974, required that communities receiving federal funds for their programs had ambulances that met new federal specifications. Three chassis styles meet the criteria and are still in use today: Type I uses

a small truck body with a modular compartment, Type II has a van body with a raised roof and Type III has van chassis with a modular compartment.

As we enter the twenty-first century, experts continue to discuss changes for ambulances.

With the possibility of bioterrorism and naturally occurring communicable diseases, the air quality in the ambulance is receiving attention. Air circulation and filtration need improvement to protect both the patient and those who render care. Occupant safety and equipment access are also items to be addressed.

Emergency Service workers are beginning to voice their needs as new vehicles are purchased.

They are influencing the design of the unit in such areas as vehicle visibility, sliding side-entry doors and the needs of specialized units (i.e. cardiac or neonatal).

Over the years Emergency Medical Services have saved countless lives with ambulances, aircraft, and boats by providing care at the scene and carrying the ill and injured for further treatment. What does the future hold as modes of transportation evolve and improve? http://firehistory.weebly.com/evolutionof-the-ambulance.html

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G N I H S U P Firefighters respond to a wide variety of emergencies, including fires, motor vehicle accidents, hazardous

material incidents, carbon monoxide alarms, medical emergencies, and weather-related emergencies.

With each call having its own sense of urgency, the call that specifically deals with your own family is usually a firefighter’s worst nightmare.

The call comes in, the familiar sound of the address, and the details of what is going on at the scene are utterly terrifying. You confirm the incident and address as you had done a million times. A frightening chill travels throughout your whole entire body and the feeling of the unknown overwhelms you. With all the horrific things you have encountered and seen, you only think the worst. “Is my family alright?” you keep asking yourself, even pleading to God for the well-being of someone you hold so dear to your heart. “Please God let them be OK, please God let them be OK,” you keep rehearsing in your mind.

The time it takes for you to gear up and take off seems so much longer than it normally does. You want to arrive as quickly as possible because you know every second counts in these moments.

As you arrive, standing there in that exact moment when the world stands still and everything feels like slow motion, you look around and are in utter shock at what is going on around you.

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ow do you cope with something like this? How do you move on or get through the shock? Is it possible to step away from the scene and collect yourself?

One firefighter recalls the most difficult things he has ever done in his career. Firefighter Donnie Shook was working for the fire department in his small, rural hometown of approximately 2,500 people. Early one morning, his crew was dispatched on a MVC with injuries. They arrived on scene of a two-vehicle, head-on MVC with one deceased driver and the other driver triaged red

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with multi-system trauma. Both vehicles sustained heavy damage and were almost unidentifiable.

Firefighter Shook and another department personnel assessed the driver of vehicle #1 and confirmed this person was pulseless and he had traumatic injuries not compatible with life. They then assisted with extrication on the driver of vehicle #2 and she was transported by helicopter to a trauma center. They were requested by the medical examiner to extricate the deceased party so the body could be taken to the morgue. Due to the extensive trauma, the deceased party was not

easily identifiable by appearance.

FF Shook was positioned in the passenger compartment assisting with extrication when he noticed some registration paperwork on the floorboard that had his uncle’s name and address on it. He immediately had a knot in his stomach and asked the medical examiner if he had any identification of the deceased. The medical examiner looked through the deceased wallet and told him his name and DOB. Distressingly it was his cousin. Shook removed himself from the vehicle and asked someone to take his place. He sat on the tailboard and thought

H G U O R TH of how to let his family know about this. At this time, a highway patrolman sat with him and asked if he was related to the deceased.

He sadly said ‘yes’ and without hesitation told the patrolman that he wanted to be the one who notified his parents, who also lived in the same town.

FF Shook immediately left the scene with the shift commander.

They drove to his aunt and uncle’s house. He asked the shift commander to stop a block away and asked him, “how do I tell them?” He just shrugged his shoulders and told him to be up front and honest. As they approached their home, Shook’s uncle was walking towards his truck getting ready to leave for work. “I will never forget the look on his face as I walked up in my turnout pants. It was like he already knew his world was going to change.” Shook said, “Uncle, I have some bad news. Your son was killed in a car wreck this morning just outside of town.” His eyes filled with tears and they both cried for a moment. “He didn’t say a word, he never questioned me.” Once they gathered their composure, he told him he wanted

to tell his wife but wanted Shook in the house. They walked into the home; his uncle went to their bedroom as Shook stood in the kitchen staring at their family picture. He heard his uncle’s muffled voice and then a bloodcurling scream from his aunt. She kept asking him who was there and who told him their son was dead. When she came out of the bedroom, she walked straight up to Shook, yelling at him, “YOU ARE WRONG! You have to be wrong, it wasn’t my son.”

Shook just stood there as words of anger and denial flowed out of her mouth, which to him, felt like eternity. She finally collapsed to the floor sobbing and was inconsolable.

Family members began to show up at their home and Shook left without anyone really knowing.

His shift commander asked if he could do anything for him, and he just told him to take him back, that he was going home.

“This was, in fact one of the most difficult things I have ever done in my career, but hearing from my uncle that he was glad that I was the one that notified them instead of some stranger gave me some

piece of mind and closure.”

With such an overwhelming job, stress can negatively affect the mind, body, mood, and behavior.

To be able to fight back the emotional stress these incidents cause can be troublesome. To be able to have coping mechanisms to alleviate chronic stress is obligatory.

A healthy diet, exercise, regular sleeping habits are all beneficial, but a prominent key is to take time to engage in activities that bring joy to your life. Joining a basketball team, softball team, or even a bowling league is just to name a few. Focusing your mind and body on other events rather than the everyday stress of a firefighter is pertinent to remaining successful in this position.

It takes a specific individual to be a great firefighter. I have the greatest respect for the men and women with the courage to undertake such a perilous job. You are my heroes, every one of you.

Actual events inspired by PFIA Agent Donnie Shook.

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The FBI spent decades searching for a mobster wanted in a cop killing.

By: Kyle Swenson

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hen investigators picked through the tan split-level house on Maplecrest Drive, a textbook suburban street in Dartmouth, Massachusetts, 60 miles south of Boston, they found something that wasn’t supposed to be there. Inside a closet, there was a secret door. Through the door, stood a small room. In the room, they found a walking cane.

MassLive reported. He operated mainly as a jewel thief up and down the East Coast, part of a group of thieves known as the Fall River Gang, according to the Herald News. The outfit allegedly knocked over jewelry stores, then fenced the goods through the Patriarca crime family, the Providence, Rhode Island-based mafia running criminal business in the Northeast at the time.

The search last year shot momentum back into the long-stalled hunt for Donald Eugene Webb. A dogloving jewel thief with roots in New England’s mafia circles, Webb was wanted in connection with the 1980 murder of a small-town Pennsylvania police chief, the longest cold case involving a slain officer in U.S. history.

Webb was a flashy personality, according to the FBI, known as a “lover of dogs” and as “a big tipper.” He also evidently had a sense of humor: his own name — “Don” — was tattooed onto the web of his right hand.

Don Webb — get it?

Early July, local and federal authorities were back at the Maplecrest address, a home owned by Webb’s ex-wife.

This time police dug through the backyard, eventually uncovering human remains, according to the Boston Globe.

Then they found his secret room.

On Friday, the FBI announced the body was Webb’s.

The identification puts investigators closer to understanding how Webb was able to stay hidden for nearly four decades, even while on the FBI’s “Ten Most Wanted” list for a record-setting 25 years.

“For almost 37 years, the family of Chief Adams and the citizens of Saxonburg have been awaiting news of Donald Eugene Webb’s whereabouts,” Harold H. Shaw, the head of the FBI’s Boston office, said in a statement on Friday. “Although it’s unfortunate Mr. Webb will never be brought to justice to pay for his crimes, we’re hopeful the family can find some closure in knowing that this alleged murderer has been located.”

Webb was, according to his FBI wanted poster, a “career criminal and master of assumed identities.” A former butcher, car salesman, and vending machine repairman, Webb had also spent time in the Navy before being booted out with a dishonorable discharge,

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Investigators have long speculated Webb was casing potential heist targets when he was piloting a white Mercury Cougar through Saxonburg, Pennsylvania, on December 4, 1980.

Around 3 p.m., Webb was pulled over in the small town northeast of Pittsburgh by Gregory Adams, the town’s police chief.

Although he was only 31 at the time, with a wife and two sons at home both under two years old, Adams was actually in Saxonburg to avoid the kind of threat Webb represented. Raised in western Pennsylvania, Adams had worked a police officer in Washington, D.C., until the murder of his partner during a traffic stop pushed him to swap urban crime fighting for small-town police work in 1973, according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

When Adams encountered Webb in Saxonburg, the hustler had an open arrest warrant in New York for attempted burglary. Whatever prompted the encounter, at some point the men struggled in the parking lot of a store. Adams was badly pistol-whipped over the face. He was then shot with his own revolver twice in the chest. A nearby resident reported hearing gunfire from two weapons. Two blood types were found at the scene. Adams died while an ambulance rushed him to a hospital. Investigators later determined the police chief and suspect had fired at one another. The shooter

left behind a .25 handgun and had also ripped the radio out of Adams’ patrol car before fleeing.

in municipal records that anyone secured a building permit to add on legally to the house.”

It didn’t take long for police suspicion to lasso around Webb. At the scene of the shooting, investigators discovered a fake driver’s license bearing the name Stanley Portas — a dead man, specifically the deceased first husband of Webb’s then-wife. Blood at the scene matched Webb’s type. A white Mercury Cougar was discovered in the parking lot of a Rhode Island motel two weeks after Adams’ murder. Blood matching Webb’s was in the car and “indicated he had been shot in the leg,” the Post-Gazette reported.

Jones didn’t wait for the answers to come to her: instead, she filed a lawsuit in June against Donald Webb, his wife Lillian, and the couple’s son, charging wrongful death and conspiracy.

Lillian Webb declined to talk to reporters when news of the lawsuit broke last month, and she also has not publicly commented on the body’s discovery. It remains unclear how Webb’s remains impact that legal situation, but it does seem like criminal charges are not in the offing Webb’s family.

On Friday, after Webb was identified, the Boston Globe reported Webb’s wife received immunity in exchange for her cooperation.

The Massachusetts Attorney General’s office also told the paper the search of the property was part of an ongoing illegal gambling investigation.

Within weeks, an arrest warrant for Webb was issued in connection with Adams’s murder, and the alleged killer was placed on the FBI’s “Ten Most Wanted” list. Eventually, the reward money for information on Webb rose to $100,000.

But the case remained static until earlier this year. In April, Adams’ widow, Mary Ann Jones, received a phone call from the FBI. “It was the first time I had heard from the FBI in a long while,” she told the Post-Gazette. In the call, an FBI agent informed Jones investigators had searched Lillian Webb’s home in 2016 in Dartmouth and they had found something interesting: a secret room that locked from the inside, and a cane.

“He told me they found a secret room and there was a cane in that secret room,” Jones told the paper. “Since Greg had shot Webb in the leg, it all made sense. They must have built that room for Donald Webb to hide him there. It all adds up.”

In a statement, the FBI said they learned that Webb died in 1999.

The FBI, however, wouldn’t go into specifics with Jones about why they had searched the house or the next move. The agent did mention he felt the secret room was not part of the original construction, and in late June the Post-Gazette confirmed with the local planning department that there were “no indications

Chief Adams’ widow, however, remained adamant the people who hid Webb for all those years should bear responsibility. “She aided and abetted a man that was wanted for murder,” Jones told the Globe. “Seriously, bury a body in your backyard? It’s still so incredible.”

There was some muted satisfaction in the small town that lost its chief. “The biggest question in the history of Saxonburg has been answered,” said the current chief, Joseph Beachem. “While the hurt will continue, at least doubt about what happened that day has been eliminated.”

Swenson, Kyle. “FBI agents spent decades searching for a mobster wanted in a cop killing. They they found his secret room.” The Washington Post, 17 July 2017

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Firefighting on Work boats

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arine fires have been some of the toughest fires for anyone to fight. Whether it’s a fire on your own boat or a vessel you are escorting or working with, you will need to know what you are doing if you wish to operate safely. Marine Firefighting Inc. has been training mariners as well as land-based firefighters to deal with all types of marine fires for more than 17 years.

Much of our mariner training dealt with work boats built with powerful firefighting pumps and fire monitors used to deal with liquefied natural gas (LNG) ships and offshore facility fires. That equipment can be dangerous if the crew is not trained in its proper and safe use. Many work boat companies consider this powerful firefighting equipment ancillary to the work the boat is to perform and, therefore, devote little time and effort in training to use that equipment. This is a mistake, as those powerful fire monitor streams can throw tons of water per minute, with the ability to injure or kill personnel and/or damage property. Moran Towing has been a good client of Marine Firefighting Inc. The company has devoted much time and effort to see that its crews are not only provided with current training and safety materials but that they are

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receiving and understanding them in ongoing realistic training and drills.

I recently had the opportunity to train the Moran crews in Baltimore, crews set to man the tug James R. Moran. This vessel is a Fi 1 category tug which has been used to escort LNG ships into and out of the LNG facility in Cove Point, Maryland.

In addition to its powerful towing capacity and maneuvering ability, this boat is equipped with a fire pump capable of pumping over 10,000 gallons per minute and two fire monitors each capable of throwing over 5,000 gallons per minute, with the fire stream from these monitors able to reach 400 feet. The weight of the water from each monitor is over 20 tons per minute. The power of the equipment demands proper training.

LNG is, of course, not the only product which might require the use of these firefighting work boats. I have recently been training boat crews in Canada that are engaged in the transport of crude oil from an FPSO via shuttle tankers to a land facility.

If the oil is not to be processed at that facility, then “secondleg tankers” periodically load the oil from there to deliver it to a refinery elsewhere for final processing. The docks and escort

work boats at these facilities are kept very busy with the constant flow of shuttle tankers and second-leg tankers. In addition to the work of docking and un-docking they are also tasked with fighting fires aboard these crude oil tankers. This operation involved firefighting foam in massive quantities.

Fire Onboard Your Boat I have written many times about the dangers of the equipment provided on many of these vessels and the need for continual training on this equipment for external firefighting. But my training is also conducted for situations involving fires on your own vessel. Often companies rely on video and CD-based training left aboard their vessels, considering this “training” adequate. In truth, without actual “guided” training sessions, backed up with realistic and varied drill scenarios, management will have no idea if their crews can protect themselves and the vessel from fire.

In particular, the fixed extinguishing systems protecting the machinery spaces on the vessels allow an engine room fire to be attacked with a minimal risk to the vessels crew. Many newer vessel’s have replaced CO2 systems with newer firefighting media, which are less harmful to the environment. However, many existing boats still use CO2. The CO2 system has been able to save equipment and personnel at fires aboard work boats for many years. But the systems must be operated correctly and in a timely manner. If the system is operated too quickly, or after too much of a delay, the CO2 may be

ineffective.

In the past, I have been asked to review the firefighting procedures used aboard vessels in post-fire reviews. Many times, the initial crew report states that the CO2 system had been discharged but did not control the fire and subsequently caused extensive damage. In reviewing the procedures followed as well as the photos of the vessel after the fire I have determined that, in some cases, one or more openings to the fire area had not been secured prior to the CO2 discharge. The CO2 will leak out of any openings to the fire area and, during a fire, the thermal currents from the heat of the fire will cause the amount of CO2 leaked to be greatly increased.

This has occurred not only on work boats but also on large oceangoing vessels. While operating the CO2 system too quickly can cause problems, so can taking too much time to deploy the systems.

I have studied many reports of fires where the CO2 activation was delayed. We all know that one of the main reasons to delay the activation is to ensure that all crewmembers are out of the fire area and accounted for.

That is not something I intend to change. Life will always be a first concern. However, at many fires the dumping of the CO2 is delayed for other reasons. On a few occasions, it was because the vessel’s master was concerned about any corporate ramifications regarding his use of an expensive

extinguishing system. The master tried many times to make many unsuccessful hose line attacks on the fire and delaying the CO2 activation for an extended period.

By the time the CO2 was released the fire was too far advanced for the CO2 to handle it.

Here is a quote from a “GARD” publication which discusses both the delayed discharge and discharging too early: “Emergency response to engine

room fires can be better organized and carried out more efficiently if the crew is properly trained in the safe use of the ship’s fireextinguishing systems. The time it takes to make a decision to release the fixed fire-extinguishing system is considered to be one of the most critical factors during emergency response, and main concerns related to use of CO2 as the extinguishing agent in ships’ engine rooms can be summarized as follows: Delayed release: For the typical engine room fire involving flammable liquids, it is important to introduce the required quantities of CO2 quickly to limit the escalation of the

fire. Investigations reveal that evacuation, muster and head counts during engine room fires often take longer than expected because “the crew was running around and was difficult to count.”

Engine room not properly sealed prior to release: The extinguishing capabilities of gas can be compromised if the integrity and tightness of the boundaries of the protected space are not sound.

On more than one occasion, the effectiveness of a CO2 system has been limited by excessive leakage of gas through open or improperly closed doors, vents or ventilation ducts.

Limited availability of fire-extinguishing agent: The quantity of CO2 gas available on board ships is normally limited to that required for a single discharge into a protected space.

It has also been found that CO2 may be ineffective or at least less effective if the area protected becomes super-heated. So, timing at a CO2 operation can be crucial.

In my training, I go over all the procedures to be followed during a fire aboard your vessel. The first is for the crewmember finding a fire to sound the alarm. Quite often a crewmember discovers a fire and immediately attempts extinguishment without sounding an alarm. If he or she is successful there may be no problem. But if the attempt is unsuccessful, then the fire may have extended from its area of origin, making it impossible to manually attack. continued on p. 37

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Back Row: Evansville Police/PFIA member Sgt. Jacob Taylor, EPO Paul Jacobs, Morgan Luttrell, EPO/PFIA member John Montgomery, William Fly, EFD Private Kurt Behme, Jake Hall, and Posey County EMS Paige Jones.

Front: Evansville PO/PFIA members Lenny Reed, Sgt. Mark Saltzman, Ryan Winters, and civilian Marcus Luttrell.

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n the event of any extreme weather situation or natural disaster, for example Hurricane Harvey, first responders will encounter the same issues as the rest of the affected individuals. That’s when you know, even 850 miles away, as a first responder that you have to spring into action and help out our fellow Americans.

As the events of Hurricane Harvey unfolded, people all over the world watched and prayed for the people of Houston. P.F.I.A. member and Evansville, Indiana, Police Officer Lenny Reed was no different. He and fellow officer and P.F.I.A. member Ryan Winters have close ties to officers and first responders in the area. They have been involved with classes and instructors with Cypress Creek EMS and know the area and the people. Officer Reed reached out and learned that many of his brothers and sisters had lost everything.

On August 28, 2017, Officer L.J. “Lenny” Reed posted on Facebook his desire to help in some way.

He put out a general call for people to find a way to help. Another officer got with him and said, “Let’s just go down there.” That was all it took. From there

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the posts were more specific. They established a collection point at the Evansville FOP Lodge #73 and the donations started.

Originally, they planned on loading a box truck and a couple other personal pick-ups. They quickly learned that Evansville’s generosity would not allow that to happen. They had to find another truck, and another. Each time they posted about needed supplies or vehicles the people responded within hours. By the time they left on September 1, they had 3 tractortrailers, 2 box trucks and other personal vehicles loaded with basic supplies and 9 first responders with an overwhelming desire to help.

After the long drive, they arrived at Cypress Creek.

Space was going to be an issue. The Cypress Creek staff had no idea there would be this much coming, so they moved the drop-off to an airport hangar.

One of the things that touched Officer Reed the most was that many of the first responders in the area had lost everything, yet they were still working countless hours helping others. Their families were left to deal with what was left of their homes without them.

Word spread, and families of these heroes started

coming to the hangar to see if they could find some basic supplies. They were blown away at the sight of how many donations had arrived. They couldn’t believe that they could just come in and pick up what they needed. The collection point is open to anyone who is in need.

Now it was time to get to work. They started answering the calls of the first responders who had devastating losses. They spent the next three days helping families cleaning out ruined furnishings. They stripped the walls down to the studs. They ripped the floors out down to the joists. They helped clean what could be cleaned. Every family that they met was grateful and humble beyond words. The spirit of Texas was shown even in the face of total devastation and loss.

On the last day, they heard about a post that Melanie Luttrell, wife of “Lone Survivor” Marcus Luttrell, posted on her Instagram page. It was a call to help 99-year-old WWII vet, William Fly. His home was destroyed in the flood. They could not pass that up.

After contacting her and planning on a meeting, they were thwarted by traffic and flood waters. The next morning Cypress Creek came through and found this veteran’s address. Within an hour they arrived with supplies, crowbars and the last remaining energy they could muster. PFIA member and Sgt. Jacob Taylor with the Evansville Police Department decided after a

Donated supplies from Evansville, Indiana, are being organized at the Tomball Jet Center in Spring, Texas, after Cypress Creek EMS ran out of room. Supplies were set up for first responders’ families who were affected to pick up.

full day of work here that it was time to take a break.

After all, they had to have enough energy to get back home the next day. That’s when Marcus and Morgan Luttrell showed up to check out these guys from Indiana. After meeting Marcus, Melanie, Morgan and Mr. Fly, Kurt Behme with the Evansville Fire Department said they had enough energy to build him a new house. He said the fact that they made the time to stop what they were doing to come and check out what was going on here was just amazing.

That seemed to be the general feeling of everyone involved. From the unbelievable outpouring of support from the people of Evansville to the Texas hospitality shown at every turn, all involved were blown away. From the $20 that was dropped off at the FOP from a guy who looked like he didn’t have a dollar to his name to the companies in Evansville that donated large amounts of money and supplies, the spirit of goodness in people was on display.

Officer Reed and everyone who came with him said that the whole time they were there, not one person complained. From the members of Cypress Creek to the first responders they helped to the citizens of Texas … not one complaint. In fact, they were so hospitable in the face of tragedy that each person involved is a better person because of it. Officer Reed said, “I witnessed humanity at its finest.”

The first delivery of supplies went to a Texas deputy, his wife, and small child, whose home had 5 feet of water. Pictured: Ryan Winters, John Montgomery, the family,

Mark Saltzman, Lenny Reed, Paul Jacobs, Jacob Taylor.

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THE BODY SHOP

HEALTH AND WELLNESS

Ketogenic Diet 101 The ketogenic diet is a low-carb, high-fat diet that offers many health benefits.

Over 20 studies show that this type of diet can help you lose weight and improve health.

Ketogenic diets may even have benefits against diabetes, cancer, epilepsy and Alzheimer’s disease.

What is a Ketogenic Diet?

The ketogenic diet (often termed keto) is a very low-carb, high-fat diet that shares many similarities with the Atkins and low-carb diets.

It involves drastically reducing carbohydrate intake, and replacing it with fat. The reduction in carbs puts your body into a metabolic state called ketosis.

When this happens, your body becomes incredibly efficient at burning fat for energy. It also turns fat into ketones in the liver, which can supply energy for the brain.

Ketogenic diets can cause massive reductions in blood sugar and insulin levels. This, along with the increased ketones, has numerous health benefits.

Different Types of Ketogenic Diets

There are several versions of the ketogenic diet, including: Standard ketogenic diet (SKD): This is a very low-carb, moderate-protein and high-fat diet. It typically contains 75% fat, 20% protein and only 5% carbs.

Cyclical ketogenic diet (CKD): This diet involves periods of

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A Detailed Beginner’s Guide

higher-carb refeeds, such as 5 ketogenic days followed by 2 highcarb days.

Targeted ketogenic diet (TKD): This diet allows you to add carbs around workouts.

High-protein ketogenic diet: This is similar to a standard ketogenic diet, but includes more protein.

The ratio is often 60% fat, 35% protein and 5% carbs.

However, only the standard and high-protein ketogenic diets have been studied extensively. Cyclical or targeted ketogenic diets are more advanced methods, and primarily used by bodybuilders or athletes.

The information in this article mostly applies to the standard ketogenic diet (SKD), although many of the same principles also apply to the other versions.

Ketogenic Diets Can Help You Lose Weight.

A ketogenic diet is an effective way to lose weight and lower risk factors for disease.

In fact, research shows that the ketogenic diet is far superior to the recommended low-fat diet.

What’s more, the diet is so filling that you can lose weight without counting calories or tracking your food.

One study found that people on a ketogenic diet lost 2.2 times more weight than those on a calorie-restricted low-fat diet. Triglyceride and HDL cholesterol levels also improved.

Another study found that participants on the ketogenic diet lost 3 times more weight than those on the Diabetes UK’s recommended diet.

There are several reasons why a ketogenic diet is superior to a low-fat diet. One is the increased protein intake, which provides numerous benefits.

The increased ketones, lowered blood sugar levels and improved insulin sensitivity may also play a key role.

For more details on the weight loss effects of a ketogenic diet, read this article: A Ketogenic Diet to Lose Weight and Fight Disease.

Ketogenic Diets for Diabetes and Prediabetes

Diabetes is characterized by changes in metabolism, high blood sugar and impaired insulin function.

The ketogenic diet can help you lose excess fat, which is closely linked to type 2 diabetes, prediabetes and metabolic syndrome.

One study found that the ketogenic diet improved insulin sensitivity by a whopping 75%.

Another study in patients with type 2 diabetes found that 7 of the 21 participants were able to stop all diabetes medications.

In yet another study, the ketogenic group lost 24.4 lbs, compared to 15.2 lbs in the higher-carb group.

This is an important benefit when considering the link between weight and type 2 diabetes.

Additionally, 95.2% of the ketogenic group was also able to stop or reduce diabetes medication, compared to 62% in the highercarb group.

Other Health Benefits of the Ketogenic Diet

The ketogenic diet actually originated as a tool for treating neurological diseases, such as epilepsy.

Studies have now shown that the diet can have benefits for a wide variety of different health conditions: Heart disease: The ketogenic diet can improve risk factors like body fat, HDL levels, blood pressure and blood sugar.

Cancer: The diet is currently being used to treat several types of cancer and slow tumor growth.

Alzheimer’s disease: The diet may reduce symptoms of Alzheimer’s and slow down the disease’s progression.

Epilepsy: Research has shown that the ketogenic diet can cause massive reductions in seizures in epileptic children.

Parkinson’s disease: One study found that the diet helped improve symptoms of Parkinson’s disease.

Polycystic ovary syndrome: The ketogenic diet can help reduce insulin levels, which may play a key role in polycystic ovary syndrome.

Brain injuries: One animal study found that the diet can reduce concussions and aid recovery after brain injury.

Acne: Lower insulin levels and eating less sugar or processed foods may help improve acne.

Foods to Avoid

In short, any food that is high in carbs should be limited.

Here is a list of foods that need to be reduced or eliminated on a

ketogenic diet: Sugary foods: Soda, fruit juice, smoothies, cake, ice cream, candy, etc.

Grains or starches: Wheat-based products, rice, pasta, cereal, etc.

Fruit: All fruit, except small portions of berries like strawberries.

Beans or legumes: Peas, kidney beans, lentils, chickpeas, etc.

Root vegetables and tubers: Potatoes, sweet potatoes, carrots, parsnips, etc.

Low-fat or diet products: These are highly processed and often high in carbs.

Some condiments or sauces: These often contain sugar and unhealthy fat.

Unhealthy fat: Limit your intake of processed vegetable oils, mayonnaise, etc.

Alcohol: Due to their carb content, many alcoholic beverages can throw you out of ketosis.

Sugar-free diet foods: These are often high in sugar alcohols, which can affect ketone levels in some cases. These foods also tend to be highly processed.

Foods to Eat

avocado oil.

Avocados: Whole avocados or freshly made guacamole.

Low-carb veggies: Most green veggies, tomatoes, onions, peppers, etc.

Condiments: You can use salt, pepper and various healthy herbs and spices.

A Ketogenic Diet is Great, But Not for Everyone

A ketogenic diet can be great for people who are overweight, diabetic or looking to improve their metabolic health.

It may be less suitable for elite athletes or those wishing to add large amounts of muscle or weight.

And, as with any diet, it will only work if you are consistent and stick with it in the long-term.

That being said, few things are as well proven in nutrition as the powerful health and weight loss benefits of a ketogenic diet. http://www.healthline.com/nutrition/ketogenic-diet-101#section6

You should base the majority of your meals around these foods: Meat: Red meat, steak, ham, sausage, bacon, chicken and turkey.

Fatty fish: Such as salmon, trout, tuna and mackerel.

Eggs: Look for pastured or omega-3 whole eggs.

Butter and cream: Look for grassfed when possible.

Cheese: Unprocessed cheese (cheddar, goat, cream, blue or mozzarella).

Nuts and seeds: Almonds, walnuts, flaxseeds, pumpkin seeds, chia seeds, etc.

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FINANCIAL REPORT 2017

STATUTORY STATEMENTS

December 31st 2016 Assets Bonds Stocks - Preferred Stocks - Common Real Estate Certificate Loans Cash and Cash Equivalents Amounts Recoverable from Reinsurer Data Processing Equipment Deferred & Uncollected Premiums Due Interest Due & Accrued Other Invested Assets Furniture and Equipment Healthcare ($0) and Other Amounts Receivable Other Admitted Assets Receivables for Securities

Liabilities

Total Assets

Certificate: Life Insurance Reserves: A&H Insurance Annuities Life Cert. and Contract Claims A&H Cert. & Contract Claims Dividend Accumulations Dividend Provision - Next Year Advance Premiums Commissions Due or Accrued General Expense Due or Accrued Taxes, Licenses Due or Accrued Agents Credit Balances Remittances Not Allocated Asset Valuation Reserve Interest Maint. Reserve Aggregate write-ins for Liabilities Minimum Liability SSAP #89 Payable for Security

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Total Assets Surplus Total Liabilities & Surplus

12/31/2016 (unaudited)

12/31/2015 (unaudited)

$135,784,454 $128,500 $24,478,435 $2,280,595 $2,896,416 $1,983,254 $675,000 $231,319 $2,145,428 $1,573,070 $772,995 $30,337 $739,455 $862,851 $0

$126,105,343 $358,850 $22,716,328 $2,173,767 $3,115,201 $2,629,613 $105,000 $19,123 $1,916,965 $1,483,970 $2,127,742 $0 $0 $0 $0

$174,582,458

$162,751,903

$41,754,143 $10,354,686 $57,906,423 $509,004 $1,980,963 $5,198,199 $724,000 $63,261 $158,170 $438,962 $75,976 $173,088 $396,038 $4,062,148 $0 $3,105,053 $0 $9,163

$40,129,015 $8,684,899 $57,313,801 $396,000 $1,893,119 $5,185,702 $687,500 $55,794 $150,698 $361,169 $152,506 $180,738 $549,189 $3,289,674 $43,849 $2,828,019 $0 $0

$126,909,278 $45,682,203 $172,591,481

$121,901,671 $40,850,230 $162,751,901

For the Year Ending

12/31/2016 (unaudited)

12/31/2015 (unaudited)

Total

$7,586,079 $20,433,917 $3,211,257 $437,243 $4,623,533 $14,963 $73,414 $36,380,406

$7,194,927 $19,023,871 $3,460,778 $449,276 $3,392,774 $38,556 $47,387 $33,607,570

Total

$3,018,590 $4,458,194 $8,772,041 $1,040,640 $148,603 $1,625,128 $1,374,367 $592,622 $2,906,677 $7,033,965 $235,307 ($35,334) $31,170,800

$2,302,260 $2,623,429 $8,665,309 $815,738 $148,239 $1,691,106 $1,592,997 $2,607,368 $2,760,623 $6,424,052 $212,895 $7,198 $29,851,214

Net Gain Before Refunds Refunds to Members

$5,209,606 $707,970

$3,756,356 $673,114

Net Gain/(Loss) After Refunds Net Realized Capital Gains/(Loss)

$4,501,636 $368,293

$3,083,242 $708,004

Net Income/(Loss) from Operations

$4,869,929

$3,791,246

$40,850,231 $4,869,929 $809,611 $24,323 $0 ($772,474) ($99,418) $4,831,972 $45,682,203

$39,002,098 $3,791,246 ($1,019,105) ($1,010,065) $0 $451,641 ($365,583) $1,848,133 $40,850,231

Income:

Life Insurance Premiums

Accident & Health Premiums

Annuity Premiums

Com. & Exp. Allow. on Reinsurance Ceded

Net Investment Income

Other Misc. Income

Amortization - Int. Maint. Reserve

Expenses:

Death Benefits & Endowments

Annuity Payments & Surrenders

Accident & Health Benefits

Life Insurance Surrender Benefits

Interest on Contract Funds

Reserve Increase: Life Ins.

Accident & Health Annuities Commissions

General/Fraternal Expenses

Insurance Fees, Licenses, Taxes

Decrease in Loading

Surplus Funds Account Funds at Beginning of Period Net Income from Operations / (Loss) Change in Unrealized Cap. Gains Change in Non-Admitted Items Change a/c Change in Val. Basis Change in Asset Val. Reserve Other Surplus Fund Changes* Net Change in Surplus for the Year Surplus Funds End Period

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MERITORIOUS SERVICE AWARD

THOSE WHO PERFORM

Above and Beyond Leaking Gas On January 13, 2017, an on-duty Seekonk Police Officer drove upon a serious automobile accident. A man was driving southbound when his pickup truck left the roadway and

the assistance of the officer and without the benefit of personal protective equipment, Firefighter Andrade removed the victim from the automobile and administered medical aid, which included cardiopulmonary resuscitation.

Shortly after removing the victim, the automobile ignited due to the leaking gasoline. Flames quickly engulfed the automobile. The patient was transported to the hospital, where he subsequently died.

Several Shots Fired

Firefighter Jason Andrade of the East Providence Fire Department and his son Callen, receiving award from PFIA Agent Ray Masse.

collided with a tree. Firefighter Jason Andrade of the East Providence Fire Department assisted the responding Seekonk Police Officer. Firefighter Andrade observed that the vehicle was leaking gasoline and recommended that the victim should be removed from the vehicle, as it was feared that the vehicle would ignite. With

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On April 27, 2017, off-duty Polk County, Florida, Deputy Sheriff Jonathan “JJ” Quintana, who lives in the area, was on the phone with his 11-yearold daughter, who had called him to come pick her up from the bus stop when she saw the whole thing unfold. Quintana’s daughter witnessed the suspect crash into the five children and started yelling into the phone.

Deputy Quintana ran out of his house, barefoot, to the scene.

When he arrived on scene, he found the injured students and ran back to his patrol car to get his first aid

kit. He got into his patrol car and drove back to the scene to help the victims. Two nurses were helping the victims when he arrived. They told him which way the vehicle went. Deputy Quintana caught up with the suspect vehicle after it had crashed into a stopped car.

Deputy Quintana detained the suspect while calling for backup.

Polk County deputies were already on the way to the scene after witnesses called police.

After the crash, a search warrant was obtained for the suspect’s blood, and those results are currently pending toxicology results.

Director Don Trejbal presenting James Craft with Meritorious Service Award. (2017 Summer issue, Meritorious Service Award, p. 19, Rescued from Summit Lake.)

J.C. Skinner from Gray County was dispatched to a call about a wrong-way driver.

When Sgt. Skinner got to the scene, he watched as the suspect crashed head-on into another car. One of the cars burst into flames with someone trapped inside.

head, removed two occupants from one truck to safety. One was disoriented and didn’t know what was going on, and the other had been unconscious at the time of his arrival. He removed them both to a safe distance, and soon after the vehicle they were in was completely involved in fire. Due to Deputy Rawlins’ quick thinking and quick response, he was able to save the lives of two people involved in the wreck.

CPR on a Child

Left to right: Chief Deputy Zach Kidd, PFIA Representative Joe Ponder, Sgt. JC Skinner and Lt. Robert Baker.

Sgt. Skinner put out the flames and provided aid until EMS arrived.

On June 16, 2017, Safety Communications Technician Beth Johnson and Captain Dan The Polk County Sheriff’s Office Zampelli were commended for says that night, a breath test was their actions on May 31, 2017, Directly to the Scene conducted on the suspect at the involving a one-month-old child Polk County Jail. At that time, the On August 13, 2017, Shamrock in cardiac arrest. Johnson received suspect had a BAC of .147.

Fire Department in Texas was a frantic call from the child’s called to an accident involving The suspect was a police family and clearly provided an two semi trucks. The call advised officer for multiple agencies uncle with instructions on how that the vehicles were on fire in Mississippi. He was shot in to perform CPR on the child. As and the condition of the drivers the line of duty while chasing a she was giving instructions to was unknown.

Deputy Lonnie suspect in July of 1997 while he the family, she sent notes to the Rawlins responded directly to the was a Horn Lake police officer. dispatcher requesting EMS and scene when the call came in. He officers to respond to the scene.

He is being charged with four was able to get there quickly and Within minutes, Captain Zampelli counts of DUI with property with quick thinking and a calm arrived at the home and took damage, one count of DUI, over performing CPR. one count of DUI with When EMS arrived, serious bodily injury, one they transported the count of DUI manslaughter, child to the hospital, one count of reckless driving where they were able with serious bodily injury, to revive him. There one count of leaving the is no question that scene of a crash involving if Johnson had not serious bodily injury, one instructed the uncle on count of vehicular homicide, how to perform CPR, and one count of leaving the and Captain Zampelli scene of a crash involving had not arrived to death. take over CPR for the Put Out the Flames uncle, critical minutes Left to right: PFIA Rep. Joe Ponder, Deputy Lonnie Rawlins, would have been On June 23, 2017, in and Wheeler County Sheriff Wes Crites.

Gray County, Texas, Sgt.

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MERITORIOUS SERVICE AWARD lost, and the child may not have survived. The calm demeanor and professionalism of both Johnson and Captain Zampelli were exemplary. They are true assets to Akron, Ohio, Police Department and the citizens of Akron.

Calm Demeanor On May 24, 2017, Akron, Ohio, Police Officer Jason Strainer responded to an unresponsive individual. Upon arrival, Officer Strainer checked for a pulse on the victim and realized the individual did not have a pulse.

He immediately began performing CPR and continued to do so until an employee from a local business provided an Automatic Electronic Defibrillator (AED).

With the assistance of a doctor, Officer Strainer placed the leads from the AED on the individual’s chest and administered a shock.

With the help of Dr. Bober, both continued to perform CPR until EMS arrived. The individual was transported to the hospital.

Left to right: MFF Chris Hanks, MFF Wesley Stoneman, PFIA Rep. Jason Roehm, Capt. Jonathan Thomas, and AFF Justin Goldberg. (2017 Summer issue, Meritorious Service Award, p. 18, Unresponsive Victim.)

Left to right: MFF Danny Hutcheson, Capt. Kevan Carter, MFF Jason Roehm, MFF Cory Dixon, FF Joe Alamillo, AFF Dean Petri, MFF David Hunter, Capt. Thomas Leighty, MFF Patrick Burke, AFF Colin Billotto, AFF Andrew Bender, and MFF Todd Horne. Not Pictured: FF Nicholas Brigante, along with FF Christopher Quiroga. (2017 Summer issue, Meritorious Service Award, p. 19, Attacking the Flames.)

Left to right: Randall County Sheriff Joel Richardson, Lt. Tommy Bushek, Chief Deputy Bob Crump, and PFIA Representative Joe Ponder. (2017 Summer issue, Meritorious Service Award, p. 18, Suspicious Group.)

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continued...

Worse yet, if the crewmember is overcome by the smoke and toxic gases, then no one aboard is aware of the fire or of the unconscious crewmember’s location, and the fire increases in intensity.

In a previous article of mine entitled “Is Your Crew Ready for a Fire,” I create a scenario of a very well-trained work boat crew who receives a replacement crewmember just as the vessel is getting underway. When an engine room fire is later discovered, the master sounds the alarm and orders that everyone follow pre-arranged and well-drilled tasks to activate the CO2 system.

After the CO2 activation, the master discovers that one of the engine room vents had not been secured and the CO2 is leaking out. It turns out that this vent would have been assigned to the crewmember who was replaced, and the new crewmember had no idea of his/her position during a CO2 operation. The moral was that ongoing training is required and that any new crewmember should be trained on emergency duties required by him or her before they are assigned to the crew.

Most mariners remember that “boundary cooling” should be conducted while the CO2 is controlling and extinguishing the fire. However, in my training I have found crews on some vessels

may be unaware that once CO2 has flooded the engine room the fire pumps may no longer be able to operate. During a fire scenario, I informed the crewmembers who were stretching a hose from the vessel’s hose station that the fire pump was not operating and asked what they would now do.

Many were unaware that they had another source of firefighting water. While most work boats have portable pumps, the crews

are not aware that they can provide an effective boundary cooling fire stream. Details such as this are very often overlooked in the training tapes and general training. When was the last time your boat crews operated these portable pumps to supply a firefighting stream? (Don’t forget to flush them with fresh water after use!)

or OSV or handling a fire aboard your own vessel, you and your crews must be prepared by proper training. And proper training cannot be assured by merely providing training materials.

Vessel owners and masters must ensure that the training material is viewed and understood. This can only be assured by running realistic fire and emergency drill scenarios. Merely squirting water over the side is not a realistic fire drill. Set up drills with scenarios for fires which might actually occur on your vessel. Don’t have a galley fire for each drill!

At these drills find out what is working and what needs further training. Making the drill realistic will also test the emergency equipment. If you don’t stretch and charge a hose line you will not know if it or the fire pumps will operate as they should.

Taking your training seriously will help protect you, your crewmates and your vessel. ● (As published in the April 2017 edition of Maritime Reporter & Engineering News)

Whether it’s operating powerful firefighting monitors on a tug boat

About the Author Tom Guldner is a retired lieutenant of the New York City Fire Department’s Marine Division. His company, Marine Firefighting Inc., is involved in consulting and training mariners and land-based firefighters in all aspects of marine firefighting and liquefied natural gas (LNG).

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SWAP SHOP

CLASSIFIEDS

For Sale or For Swap PATCHES Starting a police and fire patch/ pin collection for my grandson.

Will trade one for one. Just add self-addressed envelope with your patch. I am a 35-year veteran.

Contact: Sal Franscino, 63 Lauren Lane, Brick, NJ 08723, or 908907-0844. (0115) • Pueblo, CO, police officer and EOD tech looking to trade police, fire, bomb, and military patches.

Will trade one for one, with many extras. Contact R. Jones at k-rjones@comcast.net; or mail items to R. Jones, 24400 Gale Road, Pueblo, CO 81006-1995.

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prayer for their service and safety - with free prayer cloth. $6 & free shipping. Visit www.

FirePolicePrayer.com. (0314) • Custom-designed blankets with PD/FD logos. Choice of colors to match department and company patches. Contact NHRF&R FF Stefan S. Vassallo at 973-7681049 or Sv145@aol.com.

50x60 80 cotton 20 poly $65 Free shipping in the Continental US.

OTHER

Retired Cleveland Police Officer Bob Guttu’s book, “Community Policing (It Really Works).”

Contact: Bob Guttu at rguttu@ clevelandpolicefoundation.org.

(0217) • Fire bike painting commemorating 9/11 by artist Motor Marc Lacourciere. A framed giclee collector’s piece, #2 of 250, $1,200. Contact: William Irby at 386-316-8275 or skipirby@aol. com. (0314) • Honor your badge hero today.

Give them a personalized 8x11 color print with their name and

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• Wanted: Fire grenades, leather fire helmets, and solid stream leather handled nozzles with shut-off valves. Contact Mark Carter at 352-494-7619 or markhaynescarter@gmail.com.

(0215) • Retired Police Officer Michael Price, mike22price@yahoo. com. Shadow Boxes by Officer Friendly. Specializing in paying tribute to Police, Fire, Corrections, EMS, and Military with customized shadow boxes.

Go to www.facebook.com/

shadowboxesbyofficerfriendly for samples of my work. (1115) • Herculaneum, MO, Fire Department patches to trade.

One for one. New patches only.

Have other patches to trade as well. Bill Haggard, 441 Jefferson, Herculaneum, MO 63048. 636475-5476 or billh6300@hotmail. com. (0216) • Kansas Fire Lieutenant wanting to trade Fire and EMS patches.

Have extra patches from other depts. E-mail and we can find out if there are others you would want to trade. Contact Tim Dokken, at tim.dokken81@gmail.com or send patch to Tim Dokken 1028 W. Ash St., Junction City, KS 66441. (0816) • Wanted: I’m looking to trade police/fire patches or pins. I’m building a shadow box. Will trade one for one. Contact: A. Ferguson at fergusonadrianne@yahoo.com or mail items to 1234 Texas Ave., Shreveport, LA 71101. (1116) • I would like to swap challenge coins with other officers or agencies. One for One. I also sell them for $10 each plus $5 for shipping. Sandra Torres at 903221-6344

MOVING? Go to our website at www.pfia1913.org In the top right-hand corner select Address Change and fill out your updated information.

Take the Protect your loved ones with life insurance from PFIA today!

is for firefighters or law enforcement officers who have items to swap or sell, or are looking for items to add to a collection. There is no charge for this service, but we ask that you follow one rule: items advertised must relate to your profession as firefighters and/or law enforcement officers.

PFIA solely makes it possible for you to contact one another.

PFIA does not accept any responsibility for transactions.

To participate, e-mail your name, contact information, & ad information to

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You may use any address and/ or telephone number you wish.

Select Whole Life

Issue ages 0-59, minimum issue is $10,000• 60-over; minimum issue is $5,000

Yearly Renewable Term Issue ages 20-65, minimum issue is $50,000

30-Year Level Term Issue ages 20-50, minimum issue is $50,000

20-Year Level Term Issue ages 20-55, minimum issue is $50,000

10-Year Level Term Issue ages 20-60, minimum issue is $50,000

One Pay Life

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ODDS N ENDS

MISCELLANEOUS

Various Kinds of Things PFIA Agent Shannon Stinsman, reviewing benefits with Atlantic City, NJ, member.

Former Jacksonville Jaguar Ernest Wilford transitions from NFL career to patrol officer for the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office.

PFIA Agent Eddie Madison visiting members of the Columbus Ohio, Division of Fire. Three unit crew at the John Nance Station 2.

Investigator Richard Howard has been with the Evansville, Indiana, Fire Department since 1992 and was assigned to the Fire Investigation unit in 2002.

In 2011, he became a certified arson K-9 handler for the Evansville Fire Department and was partnered with K-9 Shadow during a four-week class in Alfred, Maine.

Shadow is trained to sniff out gasoline and other accelerants commonly used by arsonists to intentionally set fires. The K-9 team covers the city of Evansville and assists other fire departments in the surrounding region. Shadow lives with Richard as a member of the family and is subject to call 24-7.

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Augusta Firefighter Colton Sharkey and his dad, Deputy John Sharkey. Two generations of Police and Firemen’s Insurance policy holders.

UNIT CITATION AWARD PFIA’s

Honorary Mention Left to right: Capt. Kevan Carter, PFIA Account Rep./ MFF Jason Roehm, and AFF Dean Petri.

Not Pictured: FF Nicholas Brigante. (2017 Summer Issue, Meritorious Service Award recipients, p. 19, Attacking the Flames.)

A Kind Heart and a Long Way

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At the home of Harris County Sheriff's Officer Linda Rodriguez.

Pictured: Rudy Rodriguez, John Montgomery, Paul Jacobs, Lenny Reed, Jacob Taylor, Mark Saltzman, Linda Rodriguez, Kurt Behme, and Jake Hall.

Members of McCutchanville Fire Department in Vanderburgh Co., Indiana, arrive to pick up where the crew from Evansville left off.

PFIA member Ryan Winter with the Evansville Police Department and Paige Jones with Posey County, Indiana EMS delivered supplies to firefighters’ in Pearland, Texas, whose homes were damaged.

The crew from Evansville, Indiana with Cypress Creek EMS personnel at their communication center in Spring, Texas. EPD/ PFIA member Sgt. Jacob Taylor presented them with a custom flag from his company, Allegiance Art. Fall 2017 • The PFIA Protector

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CHILI & DONUTS

HERE’S THE FUN

A Little Humor Resumé at the Scene A bungling armed robber who hit a gambling den was easily caught by police because he left his resumé behind at the scene.

The robber decided to rob the store after he failed to get a job there and made off with over twenty thousand dollars.

He walked into the branch wearing a hood and a mask and demanded cash after producing a black gun. The robber had removed his disguise as he was leaving the store, meaning management was easily able to identify the job hunter on CCTV and passed his information to officers.

But officers were able to track down the crook because he had left his resumé with the boss of the shop — which contained all his personal details.

When officers searched the robber’s home they found an imitation firearm, the carrier bag, and the threatening note written on a betting slip.

Sleepy Robber Police say a robbery suspect is in custody after he was caught snoozing at the scene.

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Police say, a man armed with a gun, argued with his roommate and bound him as he demanded money.

Authorities say the robber then fell asleep.

The roommate managed to get free around 4 a.m. and slip out to a neighbor’s apartment and summon police as the robber was sleeping. He surrendered without incident.

Sometimes the Early Bird Doesn’t Get the Worm.

Police in Iowa are looking for a would-be bank robber who showed up at two West Des Moines branches before they opened.

A security recording shows a man wearing a bandanna over his face trying to enter a Marine Credit Union branch at around 8:15 a.m. – nearly three hours before it opened.

Employees in the parking lot watched the guy yank on the doors before fleeing upon realizing they were locked.

A similarly dressed man tried to enter a nearby First National Bank branch at around 8:45 a.m., but it wasn’t scheduled to open until

9. The man fled when he spotted an officer inside who was alerting the staff about the earlier robbery attempt.

Under the Bed A fugitive was nabbed by giggling cops after he tried to hide under a bed – with his legs sticking out.

The man was wanted for failing to turn up at court for a burglary rap.

Officers turned up at his home to find him but had no idea how easy it would be.

They took a picture of their lazy suspect – adding on Facebook: “He won’t be winning any awards for hide-and-seek champion soon.”

The man admitted failing to surrender to bail during a brief appearance at court and was jailed for 14 days.

FALL Sweets Samoa Pie

Crustless Apple Pies

INGREDIENTS

INGREDIENTS

8 oz. cream cheese, softened

6 large baking apples, halved vertically and cored

1/4 c. sugar

12 tbsp. butter, melted

1/4 c. powdered sugar

1/3 c. sugar, plus more for sprinkling

2 c. caramel, divided, plus more for drizzling

2 tbsp. ground cinnamon

2 c. heavy cream

2/3 c. old-fashioned rolled oats

1 store-bought pie crust (shortbread or chocolate)

Vanilla ice cream, for serving

1 c. sweetened shredded coconut, toasted

Warm caramel, for drizzling

Melted chocolate, for drizzling

DIRECTIONS

DIRECTIONS

Preheat oven to 350° and line a baking sheet with parchment paper. Place each apple half flat side down and use a paring knife to create thin slices all the way across, making sure to stop slicing right before the bottom of the apple (so it stays together as one piece). Transfer apple halves to prepared baking sheet.

In the bowl of a stand mixer or in a large bowl using a hand mixer, beat cream cheese, sugar, powdered sugar, and 1/2 cup caramel until fluffy and combined.

Add heavy cream and beat until medium peaks form.

Add mixture to pie crust and smooth top. Refrigerate pie until firm, 6 hours.

Before serving, make topping: In a small bowl, mix together coconut and 1 cup caramel until combined.

Spread remaining 1/2 cup caramel on top of chilled pie, then top with coconut mixture, pressing down to make an even layer.

Lightly drizzle with more caramel and melted chocolate and serve.

Lightly brush apple tops with melted butter and sprinkle with sugar.

Bake until apples are soft and caramelized, 23 to 25 minutes.

Remove from oven. In a small bowl, combine remaining melted butter, sugar, cinnamon, and oats.

Once cool enough to handle, spoon mixture inside apple slits.

Return to oven and bake 10 minutes more.

Recipes and photos courtesy of Delish.com

Top each with a scoop of ice cream, then drizzle with caramel and serve.

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Regional Managers Louisiana & Texas Marshall Herklotz 936-662-6606 (C) 936-448-7327 (F) hzherk@earthlink.net Midwest Brian Benedict 765-277-2770 (C) brian@policeandfireinsurance.com Northeast Alan “Tom” Evans, Jr. 716-628-4774 (C) nypfia@gmail.com

Directory of Advisory Board Members & Account Representatives (H) Home Phone California San Jose FD RICHARD FLOYD 800-832-7333 (W) Treasure Island FD PAUL WALLACE 415-564-6587 (H)

Colorado Arvada FD TODD HOBLER 720-540-4940 (H) 303-919-7759 (C) todd.hobler@arvadafire.com Berthoud FD & Longmont FD LEE SCOTT 970-532-2869 (H) 970-290-6423 (C) spockk73@gmail.com Colorado Springs FD EDWARD BREECE 719-320-5232 (C) eebreece@gmail.com Denver FD JAMES H. SNYDER 303-888-0810 (C) 303-425-6042 (F) jsnyder6181@msn.com Denver PD JASON CARRIGAN 303-994-7575 (C) pfiacarrigan@gmail.com Denver PD & Sheriff MIKE CARRIGAN 303-619-6112 (C) pfia.mikecarrigan@gmail.com Denver Sheriff MICHAEL P. BENNETT 720-273-9292 (H) Denver West Metro Fire Rescue DUANE G. PELL 303-238-2328 (H) 303-810-2480 (C) pelldp@q.com Littleton FD BRIAN A. CRONIN 303-346-1671 (H) Mountain View FD MIKE STRATTON 970-587-8923 (H) 970-412-6730 (C) mikestratton@gmail.com mstratton@mvfpd.org

Connecticut Bridgeport FD DAVID DOBBS 203-913-3049 (C) 203-331-0056 (H) ffdave17@hotmail.com

(C) Cell Phone

(B) Business Phone

(F) Fax Number

(P) Pager Number

Bridgeport FD LUIS A. RIVERA 203-526-1976 (C) hogfire@optonline.net

Stamford FD PATRICK J. TRIPODI 203-394-7048 (C) ptripodi@charter.net

Orlando PD JASON BATURA 321-228-7821 (C) pfiaorlandorep@aol.com

DeKalb Co. PD & FD TAD LANDAU 404-557-4205 (H) tadlandau@yahoo.com

Bridgeport FD MATTHEW DEYSENROTH 203-948-3548 (C) mattd196@aol.com

Stamford PD FRANKIE FORBES 203-469-5320 (H) 203-627-0259 (C) dblf11484@sbcglobal.net

Palm Bay FD & PD ROBERT YOUHAS 321-725-4172 (H) 321-501-9383 (C) pm367nw@juno.com

Macon Bibb Co. FD & PD STEPHEN M. STAFFORD 478-978-5316 (H) ss20041@cox.net

Waterbury FD JOHN PERUGINI 203-233-3394 (C) jjperugini1969@aol.com

Port St. Lucie FD & Sheriff MICHAEL RIZZELLO 772-370-4803 (C) firerizz@aol.com

CT State Corrections - Garner SCOTT STRIELKAUSKAS 203-206-2027 (C) 203-757-0036 (H) scottstriel@icloud.com East Hartford FD MATTHEW BRAUNSHWEIGER 860-539-0365 (C) Hartford FD EDWARD MACHIAL 860-985-9350 (C) latinofire73@yahoo.com Hartford PD NAZARIO J. FIGUEROA 860-296-8214 (C) nazariofigueroa@sbcglobal.net New Britain FD TIM CYR 860-841-7242 (C) ctpfia@outlook.com New Britain PD PAUL BAK 860-560-3973 (C) pbak66@comcast.net New Haven Corrections JAMES ELLIOTT 203-500-5373 (H) kingjamesxxiii@aol.com New Haven FD and Branford FD & PD JASON T. CUSACK 203-996-0597 (C) qball0056@gmail.com New Haven FD and Branford FD & PD WILLIAM CUSACK 203-494-6762 (C) Norwalk FD & PD RONALD SPAGNUOLO 203-854-3014 (W) 203-515-1365 (C) lukespags12@gmail.com

Waterbury FD MICHAEL STOKES 860-637-0815 (C) mikestokes628@gmail.com

Delaware Wilmington FD & PD ANTHONY HARRIS 302-250-5276 (C) aharris275@msn.com

Florida Bay County FD, PD, Sheriff, & Corrections PATRICK WILLIS 850-640-1599 (C) gulftigershark@mail.com Bradford County FD, PD, Sheriff, & Corrections TERRASA D. WOOD 904-769-9462 (C) twoodpfia@gmail.com Deltona FD JOE LAFOND 386-566-8029 (H) jlafond2887@yahoo.com Gainesville FD EUGENE DUGAN 386-344-3427 (C) ejd0907@gmail.com Gainesville PD MARTIN HONEYCUTT 352-871-5360 (C) martinh5360@gmail.com Jacksonville FD ANTHONY E. RAGANS 904-768-3546 (H) 904-699-7181 (C) tbone247@att.net

Norwalk FD & PD GARY MECOZZI 203-965-5345 (W)

Metro Dade County PD RAYMOND F. TERSIGNI 954-435-7577 (H) rftersigni@aol.com

Southington FD & PD MICHAEL KAHN 860-982-5567 (C) kahn358@hotmail.com

Orlando FD BOB COSCHIGNANO 321-303-3679 (C) hzmtlt@aol.com

St. Petersburg FD TOMMY DORSEY 727-647-8807 (C) tdd1121@aol.com St. Petersburg FD WINTHROP M. NEWTON 727-323-1213 (H) iwilldo@earthlink.net St. Petersburg PD MICKY CORDIVIOLA 813-362-7845 (C) smcordiviola@verizon.net St. Petersburg PD RICHARD THOMAS 727-798-7165 (C) rthomas1@knology.net

Savannah FD & PD JASON ROEHM 989-239-1450 (H) roehmjason@yahoo.com Whitfield Co. FD, PD, Sheriff & Corrections BRETT MILLER 706-208-2160 (C) bmiller0828@gmail.com

Illinois Chicago FD MICHAEL J. SHANAHAN 312-307-8795 (C) mspfia@msn.com Chicago FD MICHAEL WALSH 773-852-2927 (C) pfia3210@att.net Chicago PD ANTHONY RICHKO JR. 704-674-5810 (H) arichkojr@gmail.com

Tampa FD JACE KOHAN 813-229-7540 (W) 813-229-7543 (F) sectreas@tampafirefighters.com

Chicago, Southern Suburbs FD & PD, University Park FD JEFFERY A. DUHOSKI 708-927-0960 paidnproud@aol.com

Tampa FD LORI KRISTOF 813-376-0994 (C) lmkristof@verizon.net

Peoria FD PHILIP SNOWDEN 309-635-0777 (C) psnowden23@yahoo.com

Tampa FD RON HOEDEBECK 813-610-0641 (C) rhoede2@gmail.com Tampa PD SUSAN LIBERTZ 215-327-4872 (H) slibertzpfia@gmail.com

Peoria PD TERRY L. PYATT 309-697-9325 (H) Rock Island FD NICK THOMPSON 309-314-6276 (C) nick3146276@yahoo.com

Indiana

Temple Terrace FD RON HOEDEBECK 813-610-0641 (C) rhoede2@gmail.com

Anderson FD & PD MATTHEW COLE 765-208-5179 (C) fftmc773@yahoo.com

Georgia

Columbus FD GARY E. BURRISS 812-371-7007 (C) 812-579-6756 (H) g.burriss@comcast.net

Atlanta FD MARK V. McDONNELL 678-797-9728 (H) 770-301-3394 (C) mcdnl2410@yahoo.com Augusta FD MYLES CHRISTIE, JR. 706-951-9620 (C) mylestes@bellsouth.net

Evansville FD & PD GREG LEHMAN 812-455-3443 (C) 812-624-0023 (H) glehman64@gmail.com

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Fort Wayne FD CHARLES ‘DJ’ REID 260-615-9513 (C) charles.reid@cityofftwayne.org Fort Wayne PD JON A. BONAR 260-438-5815 (C) jon.bonar@cityoffortwayne.org Fort Wayne PD SCOTT CRULL 765-914-9153 (C) scrullpfia@gmail.com Hammond FD JEFF HARTLERODE 219-671-2167 (C) pfia707@gmail.com Indianapolis Corr./Marion Co. Sheriff KURT BENSHEIMER 317-999-5199 kbensheimerpfia@aol.com

Kansas Junction City FD, PD & Sheriff J. R. REYNOLDS 785-238-7835 (H) 785-375-1340 (C) j.r.jcfd@gmail.com Kansas City FD LOARN JEANNERET 913-371-5704 (H) loarnjeanneret@hotmail.com

Louisiana Baton Rouge FD PAUL H. OWENS 225-772-4190 (C) paulowens1948@gmail.com Caddo Parish FD JOEL A. MCVAY 318-560-1223 (H) jamcvay@live.com

St. Tammany Parish FD MICHAEL SOULE 985-373-7829 (H) soulmpfia@yahoo.com

Maryland Anne Arundel Co. PD, FD, Sheriff ZACHARY KOSHLAP 201-450-1183 (C) zkoshlap@gmail.com Montgomery County PD NOE DIAZ 240-876-7542 (C) ndiaz74@aol.com Prince George’s County FD CHRIS CUNNINGHAM 410-739-7191 (C) cunninghamsvcs@gmail.com Prince George’s County PD & Sheriff JACKIE JACKSON 240-882-4941 (H) jljackson2@yahoo.com

Indianapolis FD STEVEN M. KEMP 317-250-9933 (C) k3706@Indygov.org

Iberville Parish PD FD- Sheriff and Corrections BRIAN J. DAIGLE 225-324-9652 (C) brian2432@aol.com

Indianapolis PD STEVE D. MURPHY 317-786-8198 (H) 317-696-7562 (C) pfsmurphy@gmail.com

Jefferson Parish Sheriff KIM LENTZ 985-774-4414 (C) 985-639-1723 (H) lentz1848@bellsouth.net

Western PD, Sheriff, & Corrections ALLISON ARANA 301-730-0443 (C) allisonarana89@gmail.com

Indianapolis PD DAVID V. ROTH 317-490-9008 (C) rothventure@gmail.com

Lake Charles FD & PD MACK KENNEDY 337-855-3714 (H)

Massachusetts

Mishawaka/South Bend FD & PD NICK KAUFMAN 574-226-9681 (C) nikkik204@comcast.net Richmond FD SCOTT CRULL 765-914-9153 (C) scrullpfia@gmail.com Terre Haute FD ROBERT L. KIEFNER 812-249-2551 (C) rkiefner@ma.rr.com

Iowa Burlington FD KENNETH MORRIS 319-753-6285 (H) Cedar Rapids FD LYLE THEISEN 319-462-3912 (H) lylepatthe@msn.com Des Moines FD JOE GIUDICESSI 515-288-0811 (H) 515-250-2218 (C) jdgiudicessi@msn.com Des Moines PD RAYMOND A. GALLARDO 515-205-2414 (C) ray.gallardo13@gmail.com West Des Moines FD G. DOUGLAS REX 515-222-3423 (W) 515-991-3684 (C) doug@rex-com.net

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LaSalle Parish FD, PD, Sheriff & Corrections JACKIE L. BERRY 318-992-0966 (W) 318-316-2326 (C) jlberry87@wastewatermgmt.com New Orleans & Slidell FD ALAN MELANCON 504-905-3185 (C) 985-690-1441 (H) wizmelancon@charter.net New Orleans & Kenner FD PAUL J. MELANCON 504-524-3878 (H) 504-430-1962 (C) New Orleans PD DAVID G. LENTZ 985-649-5741 (H) nameck2@aol.com Shreveport FD & PD, Caddo Parish Sheriff GARY L. RALPH 318-426-4034 (C) garyralph@bellsouth.net Shreveport PD JERRY SILVA 318-655-5627 (C) j.silva360@yahoo.com Slidell PD DAVID L. LENTZ 985-639-1723 (H) dlentz78@gmail.com St. Landry Parish FD, PD, Sheriff & Corrections RYAN BRIGNAC 337-351-6761 (C) 337-948-3045 (W) ryan_brignac@yahoo.com

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University of Maryland PD ZENOBIA SANTANA 347-229-3561 (C) pfia.santana@gmail.com

Hampden County Sheriff ADAM APPLE 413-237-3233 (H) New Bedford PD & FD JAMES ESTRELLA III 774-473-0451 (C) james.estrella@newbedfordpd.com

Missouri Kansas City FD & Surrounding Metro Areas DONNIE SHOOK 816-315-9943 (C) pfiashook@gmail.com St. Louis FD BRYAN A. RADLEY 314-724-3005 (C) bryan.radley@yahoo.com

Nebraska Lincoln FD KARLA HOUFEK 402-499-1773 karlajhoufek@gmail.com Omaha FD JAMES E. CLINES 402-553-2634 (W) 402-968-1053 (C) jclines@cox.net Omaha & La Vista PD JEFF WARNOCK 402-312-3211 junebug1568@gmail.com

New Jersey Atlantic City FD WILLIAM J. SCULLY 609-653-0337 (H) peakey1@aol.com Atlantic City FD SHANNON STINSMAN 609-442-5461 (C) stinzy14@comcast.net Bayonne FD & PD STEPHANIE BURT 973-713-2199 (C) Bloomfield FD HUGH R. FLAHERTY 973-429-7940 (H)

Springfield FD JACK CASEY 413-272-5250 (H) jackcaseysr@yahoo.com

Bloomfield FD JOE CALLEROS 862-220-6964 (H) joecalleros@yahoo.com

Wayland FD DANIEL BUENTELLO 508-922-2247 (C) danfd50@yahoo.com

Brick Township PD DANIEL WALESKI 848-207-6471 (C) 732-262-1170 (W) dwaleski@brickpd.com

Worcester PD TIMOTHY REYNOLDS 774-253-6432 (H) tcr316@live.com

Michigan Ann Arbor FD & PD CHRIS MCGLOTHIN 517-915-8316 (C) 810-237-6888 ext. 4479 (W) Flint PD MICHAEL P. SULLIVAN 810-814-3381 (C) 810-237-6888 ext. 4479 (W) Grand Traverse City FD & PD KARYL L. MOORE 231-947-1758 (H) dfivestar@chartermi.net Wayne Co. FD & Sheriff BRIAN CHASE 734-752-0787 (H) bchase42@gmail.com

Camden County PD & FD Cherry Hill FD ED MICUA 609-315-0609 (C) 856-428-3252 (H) edmicuapfia@verizon.net East Orange FD & PD COREY BASKERVILLE 973-518-7445 (H) cbask405@aol.com

Hackensack FD JUSTIN J. DEREVYANIK 201-394-6860 (C) hfd126@aol.com Haledon PD CHRIS LEMAY 862-505-0730 (C) lemay1469@msn.com Hunterdon County Corrections EDWIN VAZQUEZ 973-610-8180 (C) thunderbolt516@aol.com Jersey City FD Robert Pilger 201-638-5297 (H) rpilg@aol.com Jersey City PD ALLAN SLATTERY 201-315-4314 (C) allanslattery1959@gmail.com Linden FD STEPHEN SMIGELSKY 732-634-8582 (H) 732-236-3036 (C) srs214@msn.com Mercer County GREGORY A. SWANSON 609-352-9931 (C) njpfia@gmail.com Middlesex County PD THOMAS RATAJCZAK 732-501-5604 (H) tjay103@yahoo.com Monmouth County FD, PD & Sheriff MICHAEL MICHALSKI 732-673-6402 (C) michalskipfia@gmail.com Morris County FD & PD CHAD DiGIORGIO 201-206-5183 (C) chadckfd@verizon.net Newark FD EDWARD J. GRIFFITH III 732-674-3143 (C) ejg3@comcast.net Newark PD & Essex County Sheriff ALEX MARTINEZ 973-390-1918 (C) alnpd@mac.com North Hudson FD JOSEPH D. McLEAN 201-725-6513 (C) joemclean74@verizon.net Northern Bergen PD MICHAEL PARISE 973-271-0069 (H) mparisepfia@gmail.com

Elizabeth PD ANTHONY “FOGE” FAZIO 908-377-2052 (C) foge69@aol.com

Nutley FD & PD JOHN HUND 201-615-5831 (C) hund@optonline.net

Gloucester County FD & PD EDWARD VINCENT 856-316-2547 (C) edvincent.pfia@gmail.com

Ocean County FD, PD & Sheriff HARRY ROON 609-709-6314 (C) hgroon@comcast.net

Hackensack FD THOMAS J. FREEMAN 201-843-6183 (H)

Passaic FD & PD JASON AYALA 973-249-7976 (H) samjay134@gmail.com

Passaic County Sheriff THOMAS M. PANZARINO 973-296-8006 (C) bkckgangarino@gmail.com

Buffalo PD SALVATORE A. VALVO 716-651-9904 (H) salvatorvalvo@roadrunner.com

Dayton FD/PD JOHN RUSSELL 937-626-2323 (C) jrussell2323@yahoo.com

Philadelphia FD TIMOTHY G. McSHEA 267-331-0606 (C) tbonemick17@gmail.com

Paterson PD FRANK DAUNNO 973-330-2968 (C) jrdaun@aol.com

Utica PD PETER A. CARUSO III 315-269-4886 (C) paac3@yahoo.com

Cattaraugus County Sheriff NATHAN A. ROOT 716-938-2239 (W) 716-498-3252 (C) naroot@cattco.org

Wende State Corrections ANGEL L. MENDEZ 716-818-3797 (C) lou811@netzero.net

Dayton FD/PD JOHN PARRY 937-974-6179 (C) john.parry11@yahoo.com

Pittsburgh FD DONALD DORSEY 412-680-9351 (P)

Paterson FD JohN A. Mauro, Jr. 973-865-9577 (C) ajm1524@gmail.com Port Authority FD RENNIE M. JACOB 973-433-6427 (W) pfia@rjacob.com South Bergen FD EDWARD J. TANDERIS 973-472-8999 (H) wset1@aol.com Sussex County FD & PD MICHAEL PARISE 973-271-0069 (H) mparisepfia@gmail.com Trenton Corrections RICHARD J. WILLIAMSON 908-420-8014 rwillpfia@yahoo.com Trenton FD GREGORY A. SWANSON 609-352-9931 (C) njpfia@gmail.com Trenton PD KENNETH S. LUGO 609-977-8777 (C) kenlugo@hotmail.com Union City PD DOMINICK De PINTO 201-401-4351 (C) dominick226@comcast.net

New Mexico Colfax Co. FD & Sheriff PAUL MAY 832-724-5818 (C) pm3149@sbcglobal.net

New York

Monroe County Sheriff ALFRED N. DeROSA 585-208-3902 (C) aderosa58@gmail.com Niagara County Sheriff KEITH HETRICK III 716-622-6461 (C) keith.hetrick@gmail.com Niagara Falls PD­ BRYAN DALPORTO 716-628-3221 (C) bdalporto@msn.com Niagara Falls FD JOSEPH TORRE 716-940-8225 (C) j.torre@nypfia.org Niagara Falls FD RISKY SANABRIA 716-550-0625 (C) riskybizz06@hotmail.com Niagara Falls PD RICK FLECK III 716-807-6876 (C) preekil7@aol.com Rochester FD & PD JONATHAN YOUNG 585-310-2259 (C) pfia@mac.com Rochester PD ROBERT A. NITCHMAN 585-278-7402 (C) rpd.pfia@gmail.com Schenectady FD MARK KARL 518-852-4953 (H) omm21@yahoo.com

Albany FD EDWARD VERHOFF 518-378-1488 (C) everhoff@hotmail.com

Schenectady FD RON BAIER 518-527-5107 (C) 518-864-7482 (H) ltreb4@aol.com

Albany PD KYLE PARKER 518-944-6206 (C) kjparker@albany-ny.org

Syracuse PD JOHN J. KAVANAGH 315-956-0470 (C) jkavanagh@syracusepolice.org

Albion Corrections THOMAS SUTTON 716- 471-9326 (C) co11to7@aol.com

Syracuse FD JAMES ENNIS 315-430-0340 (C) 315-468-8630 (H) jennis@twcny.rr.com

Binghamton FD JOHN M. SULLIVAN 607-771-6318 (H) Binghamton FD WILLIAM H. NEWLAND 607-724-5351 (H) Buffalo FD JOHN E. MURPHY 716-553-7611 (C) 716-876-1633 (F) jmurphy737@roadrunner.com Buffalo PD JOHN A. PETRICCA 716-380-2057 (C) 716-649-3441 (H) jpd441@verizon.net

Troy FD RAYMOND J. DAVIS 518-423-8918 (C) sdavistroy@hotmail.com Troy PD CHRISTOPHER J. PARKER 518-378-2283 (C) parkerc24@yahoo.com Utica FD PETER A. CARUSO 315-725-5712 (C) pfiapete@yahoo.com

North Carolina Greensboro FD CHRISTOPHER HOLMES 704-245-4308 cholmes@riskversity.com Greensboro FD MATTHEW PATTERSON 336-382-4600 (C) mattsfiregfd@yahoo.com Winston-Salem FD DAVID POLLARD 336-403-7771 (C) wslocal682@gmail.com Raleigh FD CURTIS SHERIAN 919-630-0960 (C) clsherian@yahoo.com

Licking County FD & PD JOHN CAPRETTA 614-554-6688 (C) jcapretta@aol.com Loveland/Symmes FD OTTO HUBER 513-583-3001 (W) Marietta FD JOE A. MATTHEWS 740-373-3053 (H) mayorjoe@suddenlink.net Marion FD & PD MICHAEL M. RADCLIFF 740-386-2582 (W) mandjradcliff@roadrunner.com

Ohio

Youngstown FD SHAWN MURRAY 330-518-2966 (C) mur511@sbcglobal.net

Akron PD DON G. TREJBAL 330-352-4502 (C) apd506@aol.com

Youngstown PD CHARLES GUZZY 330-707-2171 (H) 330-743-9380 (W)

Akron FD GREG GEARHART 330-351-2673 (C) gearhartpfia@gmail.com

Oklahoma

Canton FD, Greentown FD, Massillon FD & PD & Stark Co. FD MARC R. JACKSON 330-904-9095 (C) cfd110@aol.com Cincinnati PD GREG TOYEAS 513-738-4141 (H) 513-484-2459 (C) gregtoyeas@yahoo.com Cincinnati/Hamilton Co. FD MARK REUSS 513-574-3340 (H) 513-706-1287 (C) jamreuss@fuse.net Cleveland FD VINCE VIANCOURT 440-835-5647 (W) 216-534-6927 (C) benefits.consulting@yahoo.com Cleveland PD DAN VIANCOURT 216-990-2882 (C) dsv.pfia@gmail.com Columbus FD EDDIE MADISON 614-327-6707 (C) 614-769-2240 (B) eddiepfia@gmail.com Columbus PD WILLIAM CAPRETTA 740-983-6347 (H) 614-563-9636 (C) Coshocton County FD & PD CORY WILSON 740-502-9240 (C) cwilsoniaff216@roadrunner.com

Pittsburgh FD RONALD BLASKO 412-607-1798 (C) ronblasko@gmail.com Pittsburgh FD THOMAS HERAK 412-761-6281 (H) Pittsburgh PD CARL R. MOROSETTI, JR. 412-600-2806 (C) crm3393@gmail.com Scranton FD & PD & Waymart Corrections ANDY POLANSKY 570-961-9024 (H) 570-878-1248 (C) andy.polansky@verizon.net Western PA Corrections STEVEN MATTHEWS 814-931-1593 (C) smattco2@live.com

Rhode Island Johnston PD SETH D. CROSBY 401-641-1575 (C) scros788@gmail.com

Tulsa FD KENNY GUNN 918-231-6805 (W) gunnkl@msn.com

Pennsylvania

Pawtucket FD & East Providence FD Raymond J. Masse 401-639-0164 (H) pfia1261@gmail.com

Allegheny Co., PD STEVEN NAVE 412-704-7508 (H) (412)913-4613 (C) stevematt3@aol.com

Providence FD ANTHONY LANCELLOTTI 401-569-3551 (C) 401-946-6939 (H) iggylance29@cox.net

Delaware Co., FD MARTIN KELLY 610-299-3656 (C) marty12970@aol.com

Providence PD SCOTT ZAMBARANO 401-265-1657 (C) zambarano1075@yahoo.com

Erie FD MARIE PASTEWKA 814-873-5551 (C) mpastewka@aol.com Erie PD GREGORY L. BANEY JR. 814-440-2694 (C) gbags44@hotmail.com Johnstown FD ROBERT J. OPETT 814-659-9313 (C) opett24@ymail.com

South Carolina Columbia FD & PD BRANDON COOK 803-920-2737 (H) brandon.cook13@gmail.com North Myrtle Beach FD & PD RICHARD BUDDELMEYER 843-249-5334 (C) pfia1913@sc.rr.com

Texas

McKeesport FD & PD JEFFREY D. TOMOVCSIK 412-523-3903 (C) 412-675-5050 Ext.640 (W) jtomo170@comcast.net Penn. Law Enforcement JONATHON RUSH 412-952-5615 (C) jrushpfia@hotmail.com Philadelphia FD FRANK DAUBER, JR. 215-904-7143 (C) 215-904-7143 (H) francis5923@aol.com

Amarillo FD, PD, & Corrections JOE C. PONDER 806-584-0953 (C) joeponder2012@yahoo.com Beaumont PD & FD TARAH MIRELES 409-790-3663 (C) tarahm55@yahoo.com Beaumont PD & FD DAWN A. WILLIAMSON 409-728-3174 (C) wmsonda@aol.com

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Bee County FD, PD, Sheriff & Corrections RICHARD L. WEBB 361-319-3758 (C) urout_78102@yahoo.com Brazos Co,. Sheriff JERRY BARRATT 979-492-1008 (C) barrattjn@gmail.com Brazoria County FD, PD, Sheriff & Corrections VICKE MOSSBARGER 979-864-0286 (C) pfia.texas@gmail.com Brazoria County FD, PD, Sheriff & Corrections WILL MOSSBARGER 979-864-9126 (C) wm635@aol.com Denton County Sheriff Les Woods 817-675-6151 (C) lwpfia@yahoo.com El Paso Sheriff RON MARTIN 915-256-7822 (C) 915-577-500 (W) mmartin727@sbcglobal.net El Paso Sheriff THOMAS DOWNS 915-790-9256 (C) tdowns.pfia@yahoo.com Fort Bend Sheriff CHERYL L. HILLEGEIST 713-480-6033 (C) chill77040@yahoo.com Galveston Sheriff & Corrections CECILIA FIELDS 409-370-7322 (C) niecies@swbell.net Garland FD JEFF TOKAR 972-781-7111 (W) Gatesville Corrections CAROLYN L. IRISH 254-248-5400 (H) Grimes Co., FD, PD, Sheriff, & Corrections SHERRIE BARRATT 979-574-6475 (C) barrattsl@gmail.com Gurney Unit Corrections CINDY ARNOLD 903-724-9007 (C) cindyarnold18@yahoo.com Houston FD LAURA ARCHIBALD 281-802-1954 (C) laurapfia4u@gmail.com Jasper FD & PD STANLEY D. CHRISTOPHER 409-381-0350 (H) chiefjpd@hotmail.com Jasper County Sheriff/Corr.

TERRY LEE 409-420-0662 (H) 409-383-7580 (C) tel87@yahoo.com

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Jefferson County Corrections DAWN A. WILLIAMSON 409-728-3174 (C) wmsonda@aol.com Jefferson County Sheriff ROBERT ADAMS 409-722-1033 (W) bobbyadams288@hotmail.com Lee County FD, PD, Sheriff & Corrections LANE HERKLOTZ 936-295-3385 (W) 936-438-6489 (C) McAllen FD & PD AMADO CANO, JR. 956-867-4257 (H) McAllen PD Rolando Castillo 956-655-8476 (H) r.c.21@hotmail.com McLennan County Sheriff SHEILA THUN 254-405-3797 (C) sdthun@ctwa.com Montgomery County PD, Sheriff & Corrections THOMAS M. PIERCE 936-355-0490 (C) toetee@aol.com Otero Co. PD, FD, Sheriff, & Corrections MARK TARANTINO 915-637-6352 (C) texmark2@juno.com Pinehurst FD & PD KIESHA LUNA 409-330-0013 (C) kieshaluna@yahoo.com Port Arthur FD & PD BRIAN K. SIMMONS 409-460-0039 (C) firebksman@yahoo.com San Antonio FD JOE VALADEZ 210-656-9046 (H) 210-693-4344 (F) valadezjp@aol.com San Antonio FD RUBEN CEVALLOS 210-861-4578 (C) ruben.cevallos@gmail.com Smith County Sheriff WANDA HUNTER 903-710-2769 (H) 903-511-6819 (C) Tarrant County Sheriff & surrounding Metropolis area TANYA YOUNG 817-988-9704 (C) 817-292-5388 (F) tanyayoung7800@sbcglobal.net Tyler County PD ELBERT SHEFFIELD 409-377-1315 (H) 409-283-5262 (C) bubbasheffield1968@gmail.com Walker County FD, PD, Sheriff & Corrections TARA M. BURNETT 936-668-9193 (C) burnett.t2013@yahoo.com

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Webb County Sheriff JOEY MEDELLIN 956-652-8640 (C) joeymedellin4130@gmail.com jmedellin@webbcountytx.gov Williamson Co. FD, PD, Sheriff & Corrections LANG SPENCER 512-490-7288 (W) 512-940-6085 (C) pfia@yahoo.com

Virginia Fairfax County PD ANIELLO DESANTIS 540-273-2729 (C) 302710aad@gmail.com Fairfax County PD, Sheriff, & Corrections JEANETTE WAGNER 571-233-9128 (C) jlwagner8@yahoo.com Fredericksburg FD, PD, & Sheriff HANSON D. JOHNSON 540-847-1091 (C) 540-548-0022 (H) hdj2@verizon.net Loudoun County FD, PD, Sheriff, & Corrections MICHAEL COX 703-297-1527 (C) mcox.pfia@outlook.com Page County FD, PD, Sheriff, & Corrections MICHAEL WAGONER 540-860-2382 (C) kc8jpk03@gmail.com Prince William Co. FD WESLEY BANNER 540-604-4518 (C) wbdcfdt16@outlook.com

Washington, D.C. Washington, D.C. FD PETER J. BAGDOVITZ 301-980-0843 (C) pjbagdovitz@juno.com Washington, D.C. PD MIGUEL MIRANDA 202-439-2292 (C) miguel.miranda@verizon.net

West Virginia Huntington FD & PD RANDY D. ELLIS 740-886-5388 (H) 304-633-4975 (C)

Wisconsin Milwaukee FD DAVID SEAGER JR. 414-510-0442 (C) seager6@gmail.com Milwaukee PD VIDAL A. COLON 414-334-0735 (C) vcpfia@gmail.com

Wyoming Laramie City FD, PD & Sheriff B. JOHN FITZGERALD 307-775-9610 (H) jcatfitz@msn.com

MISSING & EXPLOITED CHILDREN

HELP US FIND THESE

Missing Children

Our members are in a unique position to spot missing children. PFIA urges you to make a special effort to try to locate these missing children. If seen, contact the National Center for Missing & Exploited Chilren immediately at 1-800-843-5678 or report a sighting online at www.missingkids.com. You may also call or visit the website for free abduction prevention tips.

MISSING HELP BRING ME HOME

Sable Schilder Sex: Female Race: White Birth: 3/8/1999 Age Now: 18

Height: 5'1” Weight: 128 Eyes: Green Hair: Lt. Brown

Missing: November 27, 2016 Fallon, NV

Quintejah Tolliver Sex: Female Race: Black Birth: 2/15/2004 Age Now: 13

Height: 5’4” Weight: 150 Eyes: Brown Hair: Brown

Laura Velez Sex: Female Race: Biracial Birth: 10/6/2000 Age Now: 17

Height: 5’6” Weight: 115 Eyes: Brown Hair: Brown

Missing: November 14, 2016 Peabody, MA

Jefri Panchame Sex: Male Race: Hispanic Birth: 4/29/2001 Age Now: 16

Missing: November 24, 2016 Phoenix, AZ

Christine Aguirre Sex: Female Race: Hispanic Birth: 3/8/2000 Age Now: 17

Missing: July 28, 2017 Portland, OR

DONT HESITATE CALL

Height: 5’5” Weight: 145 Eyes: Brown Hair: Black

Missing: May 31, 2016 Los Angeles, CA

Height: 4’6” Weight: 121 Eyes: Brown Hair: Black

Brandon Parraz Sex: Male Race: Biracial Birth: 12/28/2000 Age Now: 16

911 OR 1-800-843-5678

Height: 5’6” Weight: 150 Eyes: Hazel Hair: Brown

Missing: July 24, 2017 Port Orchard, WA

SPECIAL NOTE: Height and weight are listed from the date an individual went missing and may not currently be accurate.

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