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In the previous article, danny burstein <dannyb@panix.com> wrote:

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/randolph-mantooth-dead-emergency-1236644221/

Danny knows this, but I was an EMS responder in west Michigan through
the early 2000s. I served part-time with my city's fire department (as
a firefighter) and on a couple of emergency rescue teams at my main
employer's large industrial site, at which I worked in an office job.

Anyway, my employer fielded a team in EMS competitions at the state
"EMS Expo" every year. We'd go to Grand Rapids for a few days on the
company dime, score some CE credits, swap stories with miscellaneous
crazy people, eat and drink well, etc.

EVERY. SINGLE. YEAR. Second or third place in our division. Every
time. One year, the Kellogg's team effed something up and we thought
we were in ... but no, they were third and we were second and some
other guys we'd just counted out were first. We couldn't close the
deal. And being the actual experienced firefighter on, and de facto
leader of, the team, I felt the failure was mine.

Then one year, Randolph Mantooth attended the event as a speaker and
to exhibit Engine 51. He was touring with the actual vehicle to raise
funds for its restoration and maintenance. He may have been the
keynote speaker, but if not that, his talk was a major event in the
biggest auditorium.

And that was the year we closed the deal and got first place in the
MFR-level competition. And the captain of the team got to go up and
collect the trophy and certificate. So that is how I was handed an
award by Randolph Mantooth. And I haven't shut up about it since, and
never will.
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jd
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J.D. Baldwin <news@baldwin.users.panix.com> wrote:

In the previous article, danny burstein <dannyb@panix.com> wrote:

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/randolph-mantooth-dead-emergency-1236644221/

Danny knows this, but I was an EMS responder in west Michigan through
the early 2000s. I served part-time with my city's fire department (as
a firefighter) and on a couple of emergency rescue teams at my main >employer's large industrial site, at which I worked in an office job.

Anyway, my employer fielded a team in EMS competitions at the state
"EMS Expo" every year. We'd go to Grand Rapids for a few days on the
company dime, score some CE credits, swap stories with miscellaneous
crazy people, eat and drink well, etc.

EVERY. SINGLE. YEAR. Second or third place in our division. Every
time. One year, the Kellogg's team effed something up and we thought
we were in ... but no, they were third and we were second and some
other guys we'd just counted out were first. We couldn't close the
deal. And being the actual experienced firefighter on, and de facto
leader of, the team, I felt the failure was mine.

Then one year, Randolph Mantooth attended the event as a speaker and
to exhibit Engine 51. He was touring with the actual vehicle to raise
funds for its restoration and maintenance. He may have been the
keynote speaker, but if not that, his talk was a major event in the
biggest auditorium.

And that was the year we closed the deal and got first place in the
MFR-level competition. And the captain of the team got to go up and
collect the trophy and certificate. So that is how I was handed an
award by Randolph Mantooth. And I haven't shut up about it since, and
never will.

That's cool.
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Then one year, Randolph Mantooth attended the event as a speaker and
to exhibit Engine 51. He was touring with the actual vehicle to raise
funds for its restoration and maintenance. He may have been the
keynote speaker, but if not that, his talk was a major event in the
biggest auditorium.

And that was the year we closed the deal and got first place in the >>MFR-level competition. And the captain of the team got to go up and
collect the trophy and certificate. So that is how I was handed an
award by Randolph Mantooth. And I haven't shut up about it since, and
never will.

My Randy story:

I met him two times. Once at a fire and other emergency
services fair in, of all places, York, PA and the second
at a classic veh's exhibition near Detroit.

Each time he was beloved by all the visitors.

I paid for two autographed pictures each time, but
alas I handed them off to various EMS friends of
mine in NYC who had serious illnesses attributed
to 9/11 response, so no longer have them.

(but they went to Good causes and were highly appreciated)

But I do have the memories, and somewhere have
a photo or two of him and me.
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