Adopted and raised in the beaches area of Toronto, with 5 older sisters, in a loving but regimented and religious family, my dad grew up with a desire to prove himself in the world, have a family of his own, and to discover his roots. Having worked as a tradesman, and run his own cartage business he discovered the fire service by chance and never looked back. We talk about respect, work ethic, friends and foes, the pumper accident that almost took the lives of him and his crew and changed the course of his career, the fire he will never forget, inquests, and eating groundhog.