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Ordered to Pensacola
I've been order up to Pensacola for a week tour of duty with the Pensacola Fire Department. Is there anything I can do for anyone on the board while I'm there or check out for you? I'd be happy to help if I can. Just PM me tonight and let me know. We are supplementing both Escambia County and the city for the immediate future and during my free time I'd be happy to run inquires for anyone on the board.
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"A BIG THANK YOU" 
Sure track down Mike Norberg and Casey Martin of the Gulf Breeze VFD - I met these fine men the day after Ivan made landfall - here is there story.....
A middle aged couple who had decided to weather out the hurricane at home on the north shores of gulf breeze. A hour before the eye made landfall they realised that they were in extreme danger as storm surge swamped there house and filled the ground floor to chest height - they phoned 911 to request assistance and rescue.
Despatch informed the couple that no one could get to them until the morning as it was too dangerous and that they stand on a table!
Mike Norberg who had just turned 18 and his collage Casey Martin of the Gulf Breeze fire and rescue, on hearing the SOS over the airways immediately set off in search off the couple in a ex army 5 ton truck.
Mike told me that the rain was so strong that they had to fold down the windshield in order to see any thing of the road ahead – they had to dodge fallen trees and power lines and even the 5 ton was being blown off the road!
Any way to cut a long story short they got the truck as close to the now swamped house and structurally unsafe house as huge waves were crashing around - by attaching a rope to them selves and the truck they swam out and were able to snatch the couple back to safety in the height of the hurricane
I asked Mike why he had gone out into the teeth of the hurricane to rescue the couple and he said – “I was just doing my job”
IMO these guys deserve a medal – a big hand and well done to Mike.
A middle aged couple who had decided to weather out the hurricane at home on the north shores of gulf breeze. A hour before the eye made landfall they realised that they were in extreme danger as storm surge swamped there house and filled the ground floor to chest height - they phoned 911 to request assistance and rescue.
Despatch informed the couple that no one could get to them until the morning as it was too dangerous and that they stand on a table!
Mike Norberg who had just turned 18 and his collage Casey Martin of the Gulf Breeze fire and rescue, on hearing the SOS over the airways immediately set off in search off the couple in a ex army 5 ton truck.
Mike told me that the rain was so strong that they had to fold down the windshield in order to see any thing of the road ahead – they had to dodge fallen trees and power lines and even the 5 ton was being blown off the road!
Any way to cut a long story short they got the truck as close to the now swamped house and structurally unsafe house as huge waves were crashing around - by attaching a rope to them selves and the truck they swam out and were able to snatch the couple back to safety in the height of the hurricane
I asked Mike why he had gone out into the teeth of the hurricane to rescue the couple and he said – “I was just doing my job”
IMO these guys deserve a medal – a big hand and well done to Mike.
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