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Published Aug. 21, 2008
Please keep his family in your prayers please....I know this dude....we have met on several fires.... http://www.wral.com/news/news_briefs/story/3415685/
http://www.blueridgenow.com/article/20080821/NEWS/125018&title=Firefighter_dies_after_fall_in_Saluda
http://www.wlos.com/shared/newsroom/wlos_index.shtml
Subj: PRESS RELEASE -- N.C. Division Of Forest Resources Firefighter
Dies In The Line Of Duty
Michael F. Easley, Governor William G. Ross Jr., Secretary
N.C. Department of Environment and Natural Resources
Release: Immediate Contact: Brian Haines
Date: Aug. 21, 2008 Phone: (919) 857 -4828
N.C. Division Of Forest Resources Firefighter Dies In The Line Of Duty
RALEIGH – The N.C. Division of Forest Resources is mourning the death of a firefighter who was killed Thursday while fighting a blaze in Polk County.
Curtis Jessen, the division’s assistant district forester in Asheville, suffered critical injuries after falling from the Big Bradley Falls near Saluda. Medical personnel pronounced Jessen dead a short time later.
“This is a very sad day for the entire Division of Forest Resources and all of our firefighting partners,” said Wib Owen, the director of the Division of Forest Resources. “Our thoughts and prayers are with Curtis and his family.”
The accident happened at about 11 a.m. on a quarter-acre wildfire that began Wednesday afternoon.
Jessen, 32, was working on the fire when he fell from a cliff. Authorities are investigating the circumstances surrounding Jessen’s fall and the fire.
Jessen began working with the N.C. Division of Forest Resources in February 2002. Since that time he has worked as a forest inventory analysis forester and a service forester before being promoted to assistant district forester.
North Carolina has had nine wildfire-related deaths since 1960, according to the National Interagency Fire Center.
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August 22, 2008 6:57 a.m.
Help me to embrace a little child before it is too late or save an older person from the horror of that fate
Enable me to be alert to hear the weakest shout and quickly and efficiently to put the fire out
I want to fill my calling and to give the best in me to guard my neighbour and protect his property
And if according to your will I have to lose my life bless with your protecting hand my children and my wife
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