Responder Chronicles

Real Stories from First Responders of all types: Law Enforcement, Fire, EMS, 911 Dispatcher. These men and women will tell true stories from their experience while on the job. Stories of bravery, heroism, fear, shock, and some that are just strange.

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If you would like to be on the show, please contact me (Brian) at responderchronicles@gmail.com

 

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Episodes

2 days ago

Mike Simmons, career spanning 4 years as a Detention Deputy for the Escambia FL County Jail, then a 30 year career as a Pensacola FL Police officer, and now as the director of the George Stone Technical College Criminal Justice Training Center in Pensacola, FL.  Shares his intense stories from both the jail and on patrol (inmate hanging, thief hiding in the cemetery, bullets fired at him, controlling 3 suspects by himself, he/she prostitutes, possible brain matter in the curb, stench of death, with flies in a house). 
  He also talks about the criminal justice training center at George Stone Technical College. 
George Stone Technical College, Criminal Justice Training Center: (850)786-6526 or (850)786-6527.  www.escambiaschools.org/gstc   
 
website links:
www.oldpolicestories.com   or www.michaelsimmons.com
 
 
Book by Mike Simmons mentioned in the show is:  "Gunny."  link to the book below:
https://a.co/d/h68sqoE
 
 
 
 

Tuesday Apr 29, 2025

Daryl Songer, fire fighter with 29 years of experience, with volunteer fire, Roanoke City, Virginia, and military service in Afghanistan, shares his stories of a large electrical room fire at a hospital, drivers ignoring barricades, and the dedication it takes to do the job. 

Monday Mar 31, 2025

Chief Steve Rowell (with a 51 year career and counting) tells his stories of volunteering as a fire fighter, training, scene management, intense calls from MVA's multiple fatalities, small airplane crash, house fire with 2 fatalities, car cut in half in an accident, comedic river rescue, truck in tree.  

Monday Mar 10, 2025

Retired Los Angeles, CA firefighter captain with 34 years of experience shares his stories of what it was like to serve in the 1960's through the middle 0f the 1990's.  California wildfires, encouraging training from senior fire fighters, early female firefighters, pranks played on each other including the fire chief, out of town fire department officer gets an eye full of city shenanigans, loss of a dear friend, words of wisdom.

Monday Feb 24, 2025

Police officer in the State of Ohio, shares his stories over a 21 year career in which he comes across a child trapped under a collapsed roof, searching a church for an intruder, a suspect with a taser probe in or near belly button, encounters with career criminals, and words of wisdom for anyone looking to get into law enforcement.  

Monday Feb 10, 2025

Fire Chief, John King, who has over 24 years of experience in fire, shares his stories.  MVA with injuries and loss of life, Imogene Theatre fire, drunk teens, old men swimming in alligator infested water, Hooter girls lost on river, tree through a house.  

Thursday Jan 16, 2025

James Ghi served the community as a firefighter for 34 years in several different fire departments in different roles, from a volunteer at 16 years old, to finishing out his career as a Chief Fire Marshal Battalion Fire Chief with the St. Johns Fire District in South Carolina.  He served in Maryland, Virginia and in South Carolina.  He came to the Charleston, S.C. Fire Department shortly after the devastating fire at the Sofa Superstore Outlet to help them recover from the loss of nine fire fighters.  Over the course of two years, he faced an uphill battle to provide better training, however; succeeded in making that department a much better trained and equipped fire fighting force. 

Thursday Jan 02, 2025

Volunteer Firefighter, Jeff Jackson, shares his stories of 24 years of service in which he's responded to countless MVA on I-10, housefires, training with Sheriff deputies and other nearby fire departments. Stories from an MVA where there was a victim that was decapitated, a house fire where the unfortunate couple perished along with their dog and the lasting mental issue that Jeff had to work through.  Story of multiple vehicle fire at a concert and the relief of help arriving on scene.   

Tuesday Dec 03, 2024

Joel Richardson, an active firefighter for Escambia County Florida Fire, shares how he became a firefighter, and some of the stories he's personally experienced fighting fires as both a volunteer and full-time firefighter.  He also has several years of experience as a flight Medic on a medical helicopter transporting both sick and severely injured patients.  Stories of trying to reach a possible entrapped child, to having those days where he spent flight after flight doing all he could to care for patients.  Joel also goes in depth into the life altering year in which his eldest daughter fought for her life.  He'll end with sharing some very important words of wisdom that anyone can use.

Monday Nov 11, 2024

Volunteer Firefighter with dispatch and lifeguarding experience tell his stories of service of deadly car accidents, gunshot wound patients, rescues on the water and words of wisdom as he is also a pastor of a church.
 
 

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