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All Council Members
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Recognizing local heroes for above and beyond selfless service to the Toledo Community.
Summary
WHEREAS, recognizing that each year in the course of their chosen line of work, individuals perform selfless acts of heroism in service to their neighbors and community, today we honor three recent local examples represented by employees of the Toledo Police Department (TPD), Toledo Fire & Rescue Department (TFRD), and the Toledo Area Regional Transit Authority (TARTA),
WHEREAS, On, January 18, 2019, the Toledo Blade published an article that reported,
"Toledo firefighters and police officers twice rescued people who fell through the ice in the same frozen pond Friday morning in North Toledo.
[T]he second rescue, [a]t about 11:10 a.m., both the fire and police departments were alerted to a teen trapped in the ice in a frozen pond near Cleveland and Ontario streets, Private Rahe said. Three police officers arrived first and attempted to rescue him, but they also fell through. One officer was transported with the teen to Mercy Health St. Vincent Medical Center.
; and
WHEREAS, On January 28, 2019, U.S. News & World Report ran a story with the title, The New First Responder: that listed among America's new first responders Ed Dustman, a bus driver for TARTA, who the story reported:
Ed Dustman, a bus driver for nearly 30 years, admits he "was the biggest skeptic" about learning to recognize an overdose and how to administer naloxone.
But after his transit agency's mandatory training in January 2018, he took the offered overdose-reversal kit and, seven months later, used those skills to save someone's life along his route.
; and
WHEREAS, On February 21, 2019, WTOL published a story that read in part,
A devastating fire broke out early on Thursday January 24 on Prouty Avenue. Neighbors' frantic calls to 911 bring back intense reminders of how terrifyingly close they were to not making it out of the fire alive.
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