Photos by Douglas G. Morrison and Nicole Mooradian.
by Nicole Mooradian
As family, friends and firefighters looked on, 52 members of Recruit Class 142 received their badges and marked the end of 17 weeks of intensive physical and mental training.
The graduation ceremony took place at the Cecil R. Gehr Combat Training Center on Friday, May 20. Speakers included Fire Chief Daryl Osby, Battalion Chief Patrick Errett and class valedictorian Andrew Green. (Graduation program.)
“There are fire departments throughout this nation; there are fire departments throughout the world,” Chief Osby said. “But there’s no prouder moment than I get later on this morning to greet each and every one of you, to hand you a badge—the same badge that says the same thing as all of our badges, County of Los Angeles … There is no finer fire department in the world than our Department.”
“We came from all different walks of life,” Green said. “To give you some examples: we had recruits that came from other fire departments and some with no fire experience at all. We had our FSAs from the camps; we have recruits from the forest service; we had a professional chef; we had a sheriff; we had a SWAT medic; and we even had one recruit from the deep blue sea as a dive medic.”
The graduates will begin their new assignments Saturday, May 21. Congratulations to the members of Class 142:
- Fire Fighter Carlo Acevedo
- Fire Fighter Michael Ahdunko
- Fire Fighter Justin Ashley
- Fire Fighter Cody Blodgett
- Fire Fighter David Carson
- Fire Fighter Brandon Cheeley
- Fire Fighter Nathan Cook
- Fire Fighter Matthew Cuzor
- Fire Fighter Joseph DeLuca
- Fire Fighter Raymond Delgado
- Fire Fighter Patrick Denevan
- Fire Fighter Dan Draper
- Fire Fighter Ulises Estrada Ruiz
- Fire Fighter Ronnie Evans
- Fire Fighter Timothy Gaffney
- Fire Fighter Andrew Green
- Fire Fighter Anders Heinstedt
- Fire Fighter Matthew Hellebrand
- Fire Fighter Patrick Hooper
- Fire Fighter Jomelissa Jackson
- Fire Fighter Richard Johnson
- Fire Fighter Ryan Kirwan
- Fire Fighter Robert Klang
- Fire Fighter Tyler Koester
- Fire Fighter Lee La
- Fire Fighter Giovani Lopez
- Fire Fighter Bradley Luna
- Fire Fighter Matthew Martinez
- Fire Fighter Lane McGivern
- Fire Fighter Nicholas Medina
- Fire Fighter Joshua Miramontes
- Fire Fighter William Mix
- Fire Fighter Michael Moncrief
- Fire Fighter Kevin Montoya
- Fire Fighter Jason Norton
- Fire Fighter Aaron Pauls
- Fire Fighter Noah Peterman
- Fire Fighter Jeffrey Poster
- Fire Fighter Brian Rafieoulnejad
- Fire Fighter Aaron Rapp
- Fire Fighter Layton Rodriguez
- Fire Fighter Aaron Rose
- Fire Fighter Clayton Rowe
- Fire Fighter David Russell
- Fire Fighter Jonathan Sowden
- Fire Fighter Christopher Sutherland
- Fire Fighter John Thompson
- Fire Fighter Matthew Tooker
- Fire Fighter Jake Wanjon
- Fire Fighter Katherine Whitby
- Fire Fighter David Wylie
- Fire Fighter Justin Yang
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