Sarasota Firefighter Honored By Brother For First Responder Friday
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00:00We know the hard work and sacrifice they go through serving our community and keeping us safe.
00:06Let's honor another First Responder on 99.5 QYK.
00:11All right, it is First Responder Friday today, and we got Chris on the phone with us honoring his brother Tim.
00:17Good morning, Chris. How are you?
00:18I'm wonderful. How are y'all?
00:20We're good, man, and we're excited to honor your brother Tim today.
00:23Tell us about him as a First Responder. What does he do, and where does he serve?
00:26Tim is a First Responder down in Sarasota. He's a Firefighter EMT down there.
00:33All right, very cool. How long has he been doing that?
00:34As long as I can remember, he was a volunteer for a long time in high school and everything, so he's always been in the fire department.
00:42Now, is this something that runs in the family?
00:44No, sir, not really.
00:45Okay, so he kind of just felt a calling back even in high school of, this is what I want to do.
00:50Yep, that's right.
00:51That is awesome.
00:52Aw, I love that you're honoring your brother today. You look up to him then, huh?
00:56Absolutely. He's a great person. He does so much for the community. He works for the fire department, and then he does mission trips with the youth.
01:06And they went to Louisiana a few times and spent weeks up there working and rebuilding after the hurricanes went up through there.
01:14He does burn camps.
01:17Oh, for burn victims?
01:20Yes, sir.
01:21Oh, wow.
01:21The Elks Club does a youth burn camp up in Umatilla every year.
01:26Okay.
01:26And he's on the board of committee for that, and he just spends a lot of his time just serving the community.
01:32Wow.
01:33Wow, I love that.
01:33That is definitely above and beyond. That's amazing.
01:36You know, I've got to ask you something, Chris.
01:37You mentioned in your email to us that Tim is actually a professionally trained clown as well.
01:44That's right. He is a professionally trained clown.
01:47He does a lot of clown work for the church.
01:49He does a lot of clown work for when he goes and does the burn camp.
01:52Oh, my gosh.
01:53I love this guy.
01:54That is so cool.
01:56Awesome.
01:57He puts himself last and everybody else first, and that's how he's always been, and I look up to him for that.
02:02That's awesome, man.
02:03So what does Tim like to do in his off time, like when he's just, like, hanging out and doing his hobbies?
02:10He does a lot of balloon work and then just spends time with doing church stuff and does church camp.
02:16And just, hey, always just 100% gives back to the community as much as he can.
02:20I love it, man.
02:21Well, here's what we want to do for Tim.
02:24We want to give him a $100 Visa gift card from our friends at Crown Buick GMC, and we also want to give him a $100 Visa gift card from our friends at DeMesman and Dover Law Firm.
02:33This is a small way for us to say thank you to him.
02:36I appreciate it, guys.
02:37Our pleasure, Chris.
02:38Thank you so much for reaching out.
02:40Hey, if you want to reach out about that loved one in your life that you want to honor for First Responder Friday or Military Monday, you can do it.
02:45Just takes a couple minutes to fill it out.
02:46It's 99.5QIK.com.
02:48Go on there and nominate someone today.