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Awards presented at Delaware Volunteer Firefighters conference

September 26, 2016

The Delaware Volunteer Firefighters Association presented awards at its annual conference at the Dover Downs Hotel and Conference Center.

Citizens Hose Co. member James Mood received the Firemen of the Year Award for his 63 years of active service to Citizens Hose Co. and the Smyrna community. He is a past fire chief and past president. He was also a member of the Smyrna Town Council and the Duck Creek Historical Society. He was active in Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts, the Smyrna Swim Club, and the Smyrna/Clayton Heritage Association among other clubs and committees in the Smyrna area.

Greg Adkins of the Laurel Fire Department received the Heroic Firefighter of the Year Award for a rescue of two children inside a burning house in Laurel. He entered the burning building before the fire apparatus arrived and rescued the two little girls just before the fire flashed and engulfed the home.

Two meritorious awards were also presented by the State Fire Chiefs Association. One award went to Hockessin Fire Company's Rescue Crew of George Lamborn and Matt Burge for the rescue of a trapped driver whose car was overturned in a frozen creek in Yorklyn. Another award went to Camden-Wyoming Fire Co.'s Chris Dufresne, Fred Chase, Derrick Brode and Truston Davis for the removal of a person from a house fire in Woodside.

Fire Policeman Clay Yocum of the Greenwood Fire Co. received the Delaware State Fire Policeman of the Year Award. Fire Policeman James Fisher of the Farmington Fire Co. received the Kent County Fire Policeman of the Year Award. Fire Policeman Karl Walters of the Christiana Fire Co. received the New Castle County Fire Policeman of the Year Award, and Fire Policeman Dale Willey of the Greenwood Fire Co. received the Sussex County Fire Policeman of the Year Award.

Matt Burge and George Lamborn of the Hockessin Fire Company received the Heroic EMT of the Year Award for an ice water rescue. Tom Johnson received the Lifetime Achievement Award, Cliff Neidig received the EMS Instructor of the Year Award and Alex Barnes of the Sussex County EMS received the Excellence in Paramedicine Award.

 

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