When The Smoke Clears
What happens to a firefighter after they've spent decades running into burning buildings and rescuing people from sickness, injury and death? When they walk away from the job, how have they changed? What lessons have they learned? What type of person have they become?
When The Smoke Clears
#9 - Assistant Chief Michael Clemens
Assistant Chief Michael Clemens dedicated more than 40 years of service to the Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Service. Starting out as a teenage volunteer with the Silver Spring Volunteer Fire Department, and eventually getting hired by that corporation, Mike served the majority of his career in the Silver Spring area, before promoting to chief and eventually becoming the training chief at the Public Safety Training Academy.
Chief Clemens was in charge of designing and building Montgomery County's current training academy...and even though he has been retired now for several years, he still continues to fight to get more buildings added to the academy grounds.
Chief Clemens can be reached at chiefmikeclemens@gmail.com
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