Jumpline Magazine July 2024 - Flipbook - Page 42
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Honoring Our Past, Forging Our Future
Paul Blake, Treasurer
MDFR Ret.
Rescue versus Fire Department. I would need
complained about wearing them. Now, there were
to become a paramedic. Maybe I would be lucky
some exceptions when you did not have to wear
enough to get hired by Metro-Dade Fire Rescue.
your blouse, but if you were in the public eye, you
I lived in Miami Shores, so it was my hometown
had best have it on. We looked sharp. Over the
agency. I would spend my free time at the Lauyears the uniform shirt was replaced with a polo
Fire has its thrills.
derhill station to hang out with the Broward EMS
shirt and blue BDUs. Not quite as sharp.
EMS pays the bills.
crews. They would teach me about EKG interThen came the T-shirts (all varieties). Less
pretation and medications. When Metro-Dade
sharp.
As retired CFO John Spadaro said,
