Mississippi Firefighter Dies on the Job - Firehouse.com In The Line Of Duty:
"Family, friends and coworkers are mourning the death of Desoto County's first black paramedic tonight.
It was two days of strenuous physical activity that took a fatal toll on Jeffrey Jeans.
Emergency Management Director Bobby Storey says it all started Thursday.
Jeans cut the sprawling lawn at the Eudora firehouse, then tested engine hose well into the evening.
Friday he picked up an engine that was being repaired in Memphis and put all the heavy hose back on the truck.
It appears all the work was more than his body could take.
Jeans' co-workers say he told them he felt hot Friday night before going into the kitchen. That's where they found him a short time later, lying on the floor in cardiac arrest.
Jeans was a 25-year-veteran of DeSoto County emergency services, starting as a volunteer back in 1982."
Tuesday, May 15, 2007
Mississippi Firefighter Dies on the Job
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I hope to somehow convey to the family and friends of Jeffrey Jeans how saddened i am that this young, and dedicated EMT-I, firefighter has passed away. i didn't know him, and live up in the northeastern part of the country(Maine). I became an EMT the same year as Jeffrey, though i am ten years older. I suspect, perhaps erroneously, that he met with not a little struggle as the first Black ambulance person in the department. The fact that he joined youg and stayed with it, and worked hard, as described in the articles i read, tells me that he must have had an extra strong spirit, too bad to lose one of the good guys, as i suspect he was. janet
Hi Janet. Thank you for commenting on the blog and I agree with your statement regarding Firefighter Jeans.
I find it interesting how others reach the blog and there location. I see that you are in Maine. How did you find the blog?
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