St. Matthews Fire Protection District 1983 - RingBrothersHistory.com

1983
January 10, 1983, Letter:
NOTE: This letter is a follow up the an October 17, 1982 letter written by Captain Rick Albers. The result—
the department did accept the resignation of Captain Albers from Fire Prevention. As Captain Albers recalls
about a year later the department stated to use apparatus again for fire safety education programs. The program
was assigned to Jim Gibson who was one of the daytime paid firefighters at the time. Captain Albers ran that
program from about 1976 until 1983 and had had quite a following. “There were schools that weren’t even in
our district that brought kids to St. Matthews for our programs. I was really proud of the program and it was
working because I heard from more than one parent who said they put in smoke detectors because of what we
told their kids. We even had some say that they had fires and the kids knew what to do. I used to get a lot of
help from Gary Doyle on the fire safety classes. He worked very hard to help me do the presentations. I remember
when I told him what they decided with regard 2 to the apparatus and he was really upset and almost quit
the department. I talked him out of it.”
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