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Steve Greene

It certainly was not a part of my life plan. Not even close. However, I can tell you that my eight years as a volunteer firefighter/EMT II, were eight of the best years of my life. And, they still are. No, I don’t jump out the door when the alarm rings. Actually, the town in which I have lived for the past twenty-plus years currently has a full-time career fire-rescue department. When we first moved here in 1990, the fire department was a combo with both career and volunteers; however my back injury prevented me from joining and there was no fire-police49 division in existence. Yet, I still have a “jump bag” in my car, loaded with BLS (Basic Life Support) supplies. Moreover, I have this uncanny knack of being in the right place at the right time, when an emergency occurs. In the over twenty-five years since I left active service due to an injury and having been “disabled” since 1992, I have been first on-scene for numerous motor vehicle crashes, cardiac incidents, falls, and other assorted mishaps. No matter what level of pain I am suffering at that moment, the adrenaline starts pumping and yes, I jump into action, assuring that someone has called 911 and rendering aid until fire-rescue, EMS and police arrive.

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Ever since I was a little boy, the flashing of emergency lights fascinated me. Be it the blue light of police cars, red lights of fire equipment or even the yellow lights of a tow-truck. If I saw it, I began calling out, “Beacon, beacon, beacon!”

Fish Out Of Water

A Jewish firefighter? Must be m’shuggah! (Crazy) Of course, in Israel, almost every firefighter is Jewish. But in America? In the United States, one can find larger numbers of Jewish firefighters, mostly volunteer, but some career, on Long Island, suburban Philadelphia, Maryland, Delaware, and in the environs of numerous major cities around the country that are surrounded by volunteer departments. Albany NY and Washington DC are notable examples of this. There are also Jews among the five or so volunteer fire companies that exist within several of the boroughs of the City of New York. Additionally, three Jewish FDNY firefighters died in the terrorist attacks of 9|11. However, who expected not one, but two Jewish firefighters in Guilford County, North Carolina? What are you, nuts?
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What are you, nuts?

This book tells the unlikely tale of how two Jewish men, strangers yet, walked into a combination career/volunteer fire-rescue department in central North Carolina and became the first Jewish members in the department’s history. Moreover, they were the first Jews that the vast majority of the members had ever met! Within a few years, I was also the first Jewish EMT hired to work for Guilford County EMS (part-time).

What are you, nuts?

This book tells the unlikely tale of how two Jewish men, strangers yet, walked into a combination career/volunteer fire-rescue department in central North Carolina and became the first Jewish members in the department’s history. Moreover, they were the first Jews that the vast majority of the members had ever met! Within a few years, I was also the first Jewish EMT hired to work for Guilford County EMS (part-time).

What are you, nuts?

This book tells the unlikely tale of how two Jewish men, strangers yet, walked into a combination career/volunteer fire-rescue department in central North Carolina and became the first Jewish members in the department’s history. Moreover, they were the first Jews that the vast majority of the members had ever met! Within a few years, I was also the first Jewish EMT hired to work for Guilford County EMS (part-time).

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The first “dot” probably appeared when I was in third grade. My teacher at Saxonville Elementary School was Mrs. Peterson. Just after school began, we had a speaker come into the room to tell us about UNICEF, the United Nations International Children’s’ Emergency Fund. She showed us pictures of children who were dying of thirst or malnutrition from many countries around the world. I felt so sad for those kids who didn’t have what I had. But how could I help?

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