I think everybody that I work with at the fire department, I consider like my second family. You develop a close bond when you're getting up in the middle of the night to go to calls. . . It's tiring, it's a lot of work, it's a lot of responsibility, but at the same time, you're invested in what you're doing for your community and for the people beside you.

It's a brotherhood, we're like one big family. We all work together, we joke around together, we all hang out together. It's a good group to be around. I have a lot of very strong relationships here.

The experiences that you share with the poeple that you're in with; challenging, high stress situations, it really brought fourth the meaning of brotherhood to me. It creates a bond that is almost impossible to replicate. At Bay Ridge, we're a very close-knit group of people. "