A Bucks County volunteer firefight recently celebrated 40-years of service to her community. Lynn Kirkner, a mother of three and a school teacher by trade, has responded to hundreds of calls with the Hartsville Fire Company.
Lynn Kirkner, a volunteer firefighter in Bucks County, recently celebrated 40-years of service to her community. Joining the Hartsville Fire Company when she was in her late-teens, Kirkner still responds to calls as a driver/operator and serves as an instructor a the fire academy.A Bucks County volunteer firefight recently celebrated 40-years of service to her community.
"People are having their worst moment of their life - 2 a.m. in the morning their house is on fire, they're trapped in a car that's been smashed, their kids are caught on something - I get to be part of the solution," Kirkner explained. "An 8-year-old boy his 42-year-old dad and a 68-year-old grandmom all died, I sat in the fire truck and just cried and thought ‘I can’t do this anymore'," Kirkner said,
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