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
#12 - Captain Tony Rankin
Captain Tony Rankin is another firefighter that both Russ and Tony have personal experience working with. When Tony Rankin was a captain in Hillandale, Tony Bencosme was his lieutenant and Russ was one of his firefighters.
Tony shares with us about his upbringing growing up in Montgomery County, how a chance encounter with a former schoolmate-turned firefighter led him to become a volunteer firefighter and eventually a career firefighter, and how his desire to seek adventure led him to a very unusual hobby.
Tony also shares about a struggle he had once he stepped away from the fire service, and how he came to reinvent himself by parlaying a hobby into a whole new career.
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