Odds are that you like firemen. They’re brave and their only job is to protect people and their possessions. But if one of them goes above and beyond, he deserves a Sunday shout-out. One such guy is Brian Thompson, who is a Captain in the Los Banos Fire Department (LBFD).
From Epoch Bright:
“On Oct. 19, a crew from the Los Banos Fire Department (LBFD) in California responded to a call from a family. Karen Mendoza Silva, a mom of three, was in medical distress and needed to be taken to the hospital. Her three young children, aged between 5 and 8 years, were worried about their mom, and had no one who could immediately take care of them.”
After Capt. Thompson, 54, and his crew helped Ms. Silva get into an ambulance, his thoughts turned to the kids.
“There was two boys and a girl,” LBFD Capt. Brian Thompson told The Epoch Times. “They were asking, ‘Is she going to be okay?’ … They were on the phone with their father and with their uncle. I briefly Facetimed with the father to let him know that we were there.”
“I started thinking, ‘Oh, we don’t have anybody here to stay with the children,'” he said. “I asked them … ‘Hey, is there anybody here to stay with you?’ and they said, ‘No,’ that nobody was going to be coming for like, another hour.
What to do? A quandary. Three very young hungry kids.
The answer for Brian Thompson. Obviously … fix breakfast for them!
“I had them get the toaster out, get the bread out, sugar, all the ingredients … so we made breakfast together, cinnamon sugar toast and orange juice,” Capt. Thompson said. “They seemed excited that the firemen were there and helping them.”
As they began to warm up to him, they showed him their art and schoolwork for the day.
After around 20 minutes, the fire crew had to leave, so Capt. Thompson passed the baton to a police officer, and minutes later, the children’s uncle arrived.
Kudos to Brian Thompson and his crew who are truly everything I would want from firemen.
12/3/23