Sue Farren joins Danny today to talk about a miraculous story of a little boy who was hit by a baseball and went into cardiac arrest. Sue spent 35 years as a paramedic in Oakland and San Francisco and has been on thousands of calls but this one was the most memorable. Commotio Cordis is a phenomenon that occurs only in young boys when they are struck in the chest at the most inopportune time and causes the heart to stop. Even with prompt CPR and Defib it is 65% fatal and without any intervention it is 80% fatal. 

Susan Farren is the founder of First Responders Resiliency Inc. A graduate of the Stanford paramedic program, Susan has served her entire career in the industry of pre-hospital care. Serving in both the private and public sectors as a paramedic, supervisor, operations manager, peer counselor, clinical manager, EMS educator and consultant throughout the greater Bay Area.

After being diagnosed with kidney cancer in 2016, Susan had to come to grips with the physical, emotional and mental impact the career had taken on her – and the Resiliency Training Program was born.

After her treatment and recovery, Susan dove into the research and subsequent data discovered involving the mental and physical impacts the industry had taken on her. Armed with that knowledge she pulled together a team of experts from every division of the industry who are working as a team to change the lives of First Responders.

A regularly sought after inspirational speaker and the published author of The Fireman’s Wife, A Memoir. Her second book, Firestorm, A Survivor’s Story is due for release in 2019

https://www.resiliency1st.org/aboutus/

FF Joe Vosilla joins Danny on this episode to talk about the Fathers Day Fire in June of 2001. Joe was assigned the Outside Vent Position in Ladder 116. He was working right along side FF's Harry Ford and John Downing on the basement windows that were sealed up. Joe describes hearing a voice immediately before the explosion that took out half the building. The voice caused him to pull his head out of the basement window and turn his back to the wall. Had he not done that he would have taken the full force of the blast in his face and chest. 

Bobby joins Danny to talk about stories of Divine Intervention as well as their collaboration on a new book of the same name. Bobby shares a near miss as well as a few near misses he's come across as editor and chief of Fire Engineering Magazine. Danny and Bobby encourage listeners to share stories of their own near misses to be aired and used in their upcoming book.

Tonight we are joined by BC Brendan Manning who was working in FDNY Ladder 163 in June of 2001 when a hardware store exploded sending him out into the street. He attributes the Angels intervening in saving his life at this tragic fire where the casualties could have been a lot worse. 

Danny Sheridan talks with FF Kerry Murphy from Ladder 29 in the South Bronx about the night he fell 72 feet at 65 miles per hour into a shaft and survived. FF Murphy shares his experience of how while he was tumbling towards sure death his conversation with God and his departed Aunt in Ireland, Sister Grace.

Danny Sheridan talks with FF Kerry Murphy from Ladder 29 in the South Bronx about the night he fell 72 feet at 65 miles per hour into a shaft and survived. FF Murphy shares his experience of how while he was tumbling towards sure death his conversation with God and his departed Aunt in Ireland, Sister Grace.

Tonight Danny is joined by his dear friend Billy Larsen. They worked together in Ladder 17 in the South Bronx. The main story tonight is about a fire in a 5 Story Vacant Tenement where there was a collapse and all members survived due to an intervention of a new inexperienced firefighter.