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to be a paid firefighter.
John’s dad joined originally to just help out but decided to take the EVOC training when he heard the department needed more drivers. Last year Mr. Pearre ran about 400 calls, nearly every one, said John. John ran 110 calls last year.
On a recent house fire in Amissville, John said that he worked on salvage and overhaul for four hours following the fire. He said that it is hard to tear up someone’s house but it has to be done to check behind the walls for fire. During the salvage operation, he said, he found a white cat, which was by now black, sitting on a chair in the middle of a room where the roof had collapsed, looking like he was in shock. But he was still alive, and was rescued.
Brian Flock joined Amissville last September and received his EMT-B certification in December. He is really enthusiastic about running rescue calls and hopes to eventually be a paramedic. “I would love that!” he said.
His dad used to be a firefighter and J.B. Carter, the fire chief at Amissville, is his cousin. Watching the TV show “Rescue 911” really got him interested in rescue, too.
He is an 18-year-old who attends Culpeper High School. He said that because he lives right on the county line between Rappahannock and Culpeper, he was allowed to choose which school he would attend. Next year he will attend Shenandoah University and study respiratory care. He has already observed the class for eight hours. He is especially interested in respiratory care because he has had asthma for eight years, and said he has been transported by both Amissville and Washington rescue squads (he has also run calls with Washington Volunteer Fire and Rescue in the past but now runs mostly with Amissville). “When you get someone that
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