Crime & Safety

Three Sons Follow Their Dads to the Bristol Kendall Fire Department

All three recently gradated as firefighter paramedics.

Like father, like son.

Back in December, a ceremony was held for the graduating 2013 paramedic class of the  for the Southern Fox Valley Emergency Medical Services System.

Three members from the Bristol Kendall Fire Department successfully completed the course requirements and became paramedics for the BKFD.

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Firefighter Michael Fairfield, Firefighter Jason Knobeloch and Firefighter Tyler Riemenschneider graduated and will enter the fire service as a member of the BKFD with the department's paramedic contracting agency PSSI.

All three followed their father's footsteps, who also serve(d) as members of the BKFD: Assistant Chief Timothy Fairfield, Scott Riemenschneider (past BKFD member) and Lt Jerry Knobeloch.

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