Last Tuesday, from 1 p.m. to around 2:35 p.m., Armand Mendez was talking with me about his 26 years with Knox County Rescue (KCR). About 90 minutes later he was …
T.J. Giles loves life in emergency services
Firefighter. Emergency Medical Technician. Combat Medic. Arson Investigator. Rescue Technician. Rescue/recovery certified scuba diver.
Emergency service is his life.
Lt. Thomas Jackson Giles, best know as T.J., leads the Knox County Rescue …
Justin Faulkner is KCR’s ‘next generation’
Every emergency service organization in Knoxville and Knox County will tell you their biggest challenge is recruiting young people into the profession. So, when young Justin Faulkner walked into the …
KCR’s Fremow on tornado devastation: ‘Your soul does not get numb’
Bart Fremow saw things he hopes to never see again: a baby blanket 80 feet up in a tree; pieces of bodies in a field and in trees a mile …
Dr. Russ Frazier: Caring professional heads KCR
He has his collection of Knox County Rescue (KCR) uniforms and an array of hats, coats, shirts and boots. There’s a formal uniform and working clothes – and yes, at …
Diver ‘Hippy’ Jenkins has many talents
Matt Jenkins is 44 and a man of many talents, one could say.
He could handle a Bobcat and backfill foundations of a home when he was 8. At 15 he …
Rescue volunteer still going strong at 73
He’s a spry 73, all 5 feet 6 inches of him. These days he’s a handyman by trade, fixing this and that for a Blount County buddy’s rental homes and …
Young Seymour vol follows his passion, fills a need
Ethan Adkins was the second responder of the Seymour Volunteer Fire Department to arrive at the scene of a head-on wreck in October 2018 in Sevier County. The driver of …
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