Today I awoke with a strong sense of loss and soon learned that a Howard County firefighter had died very early this morning in a seven-alarm blaze due to a lightning strike. Firefighters...such a special breed of heroes. Those who run toward danger not from it.
This loss is especially close to home as our son is a firefighter/EMT for Baltimore County. I feel for the family of this young man and for all these heroes.
About Me
- KathyA
- I am a retired English teacher and department head, the mother of three grand mother of four, and have been married to the same man for 53 years, two years after we met at college. I taught in both middle and high schools as I really love teens and in-betweens. I was also a certified Lamaze instructor, and for a short time a volunteer chaplain at Howard County General Hospital. I am a two-time cancer survivor, ovarian (2003), and breast (2019) I was born in South Philadelphia and grew up in the 'burbs with great parents, in a bilingual household. I love soft pretzels and cheesesteaks, the Phillies, the Eagles, the Orioles, and sometimes the Ravens. I love being Mom, Aunt Kathy, Nona Kathy (Kath), and Teacher. I spend a lot of time in my gardens in the spring and summer, and in the winter I plan what I'm going to plant. I also am an avid reader, cook, photographer, lover of languages, music, and four-footed furries.
2 comments:
Oh yes, this would effect you even more given your son's job. It is so sad.
I vaguely recall reading a Kurt Vonnegut book about fire fighters as heroes, back in college.
It's sad when anyone dies in the line of duty, but even sadder when they are young and at the beginning of that should have been a long, productive life.
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