The Florence Town Council honored a member of the Florence Fire & Medical Department for his 20 years of service. Mike Harrison was recognized during Monday’s council meeting. Harrison …
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The Florence Town Council honored a member of the Florence Fire & Medical Department for his 20 years of service.
Mike Harrison was recognized during Monday’s council meeting.
Harrison began working for the town as a full-time firefighter in 2004. He was promoted to engineer in 2007 and served as interim captain in 2011 and 2019.
“Throughout his career, Mike has become one of department’s ‘go to’ people,” according to a council staff report. “Because Mike has been in the department for 20 years, he also has a very good historical perspective. This perspective helps Mike answer the ‘why we do things the way we do’ questions.”
Harrison is also one of the most senior paramedics in the department and “has a wealth of experience and knowledge to offer the newer members of the department.”
In 2021, Harrison and a fellow firefighter, along with an AMR ambulance team, assisted in a difficult delivery in which the infant was not showing any signs of life.
“The paramedics began resuscitative efforts on the newborn while still caring for the mother in the back of the ambulance enroute to the hospital,” the report continued. “Upon arrival at the hospital, the team turned over a stable mother and a newborn that began breathing on his own.”
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