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woodsprite

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1. My dad was a volunteer firefighter and ambulance driver

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Thu Dec 8, 2022, 08:31 AM

Dec 2022

For Aetna HH&L in Newark. My mom met him in the driveway as he got home from work and told him the news. He backed right out if the driveway to grab his gear and report for duty. What he said was that the scene was devastating, even removing carnage/debris from trees. He had never seen/worked a scene anything like it before.

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My dad was a volunteer firefighter and ambulance driver woodsprite Dec 2022 #1

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