kaiser715
Doing hard time
- Joined
- Jun 1, 2006
- Location
- 7, Pocket, NC
March 14, 1980 -- one of those days which begins as so many others. People get up and go to work, send their children off to school, some come home from work from a 24 hour or late shift. The Fire Service has these people, just as any other group....
But this day is different --- doesn't seem so at its start, but its ending is most tragic.
Mitchell's on Bragg Street would suffer a major fire, and Sanford Fire Department and our fire service in general would suffer a most devastating loss.....
On that night, Billy Ray Faircloth, Firefighter of the Sanford Fire Department lost his life in service to this community, while trying to help extinguish this terrible fire.
Many don't remember this day, but those who were there, will never forget. Many of those in the Fire Service today, were there, but as observers, too young to yet be in service -- Many in the Fire Service today, were not yet born.......
To those who were there, share the history, share the lessons learned.... Push the safety aspects of our world.... Share with the new firefighter the urgency of the adage "Every one goes home safe"......
RIP Billy Ray
But this day is different --- doesn't seem so at its start, but its ending is most tragic.
Mitchell's on Bragg Street would suffer a major fire, and Sanford Fire Department and our fire service in general would suffer a most devastating loss.....
On that night, Billy Ray Faircloth, Firefighter of the Sanford Fire Department lost his life in service to this community, while trying to help extinguish this terrible fire.
Many don't remember this day, but those who were there, will never forget. Many of those in the Fire Service today, were there, but as observers, too young to yet be in service -- Many in the Fire Service today, were not yet born.......
To those who were there, share the history, share the lessons learned.... Push the safety aspects of our world.... Share with the new firefighter the urgency of the adage "Every one goes home safe"......
RIP Billy Ray
To all our fallen.
