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Firehouse Magazine Rescue Award Winners for 1998

Firehouse Magazine honors firefighters from the United States for acts of heroism in its April edition. Firehouse has done so since 1978. Candidates for the award are submitted by their fire departments and selected by a board of fire professionals. Competition is intense.

Following publication of its April edition, Firehouse sends the records and photographs to the Hall of Flame, where they are housed for permanent referral by Firehouse Magazine staff members.

Hall of Flame staff members use the records to create displays for the National Firefighting Hall of Heroes. Winners are recognized on the walls of the gallery. The photographs and citations are usually more extensive than that

which appears in the April edition of Firehouse because the Hall of Heroes does not have the space constraints of the magazine.

Rescue Award winners for 1997 , 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, and 2003 are now published on this web site. Please use it as a supplement to the fine work of Firehouse Magazine.

We encourage our visitors to examine the web site of Firehouse Magazine. It is a mine of information for anyone interested in American firefighting. Visitors to the Firehouse website can make arrangements to subscribe to the magazine directly from the site.

Its URL is http://www.firehouse.com.

This directory lists the winners for 1998, in the same order in which they are displayed in the Hall of Heroes. These firefighters were honored in the April 1999 issue of Firehouse Magazine.

There are six pages for the 1998 winners. Each firefighter in the Directory has a photo and citation description. Click on his or her name in the Directory to get to this information.

Page 1

Robert S. Hoff	Chicago, IL	Merrill Wood	Houston, TX	Andrew Keller	Montgomery County, MD
George S. Shea	Brooklyn, NY	Kelly Miller	Houston, TX	Dennis Schroyer	Detroit, MI
Thaddeus Mlodzinsky	Philadelphia, PA	Travis Quinn	Houston, TX	Richard Gainer	Detroit, MI
Jefrey Cook	Toledo, OH	Timothy Wuerful	Los Angeles, CA	Peter Pink	Detroit, MI
Mark McKenzie	Montgomery County, MD	Richard A. Van Sant	Indianapolis, IN	Robert J. Connolly	Boston, MA
Jeff Mitchell	Mesa, AZ	Gordon Barton	Lynn, MA	Eugene B. Fortes	Boston, MA
Terry Self	Mesa, AZ	Walter Stottlemeyer, Jr.	Montgomery County, MD

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Ron G. McFadden	LA City, CA	Peter Colli	Lindenhurst, NY	Francis X. Hanlon	Anne Arundel County, MD
Robert Martin	Chicago, IL	Francis G. Clines	Boston, MA	Larry Poteet	Anne Arundel County, MD
Robert Branch	Houston, TX	John F. Linnell	Boston, MA	Rayburn Smallwood	Anne Arundel County, MD
Robert Yarborough	Houston, TX	Richard Quinlan	Boston, MA	Doug Hancock	Houston, TX
Michael Crachiola	Detroit, MI	Greg Dickson	St. Louis, MO	Robert Ross	Houston, TX
Barry Ussery	Charlotte, NC	Phillip W. Bonnell	Columbus, OH	Dave Rispoli	Newark, NJ
Michael G. Byrd	Bladen County, NC	Christopher Hamlin	Brockport, NY	Thomas Aquino	Montgomery County, MD
Paul Campson	E. Farmingdale, NY	Christian A. McCullough	Brockport, NY	Philip DiMaria	Miami, FL

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Robert P. Eaby, Jr.	Prince George County, MD	Derrick Holmes	Detroit, MI	Michael Sorace	Newark, NJ
Bernardo Gomez-Kling	Montgomery County, MD	Franklin Hornberg	St. Louis, MO	Robert Werdann	Newark, NJ
Steven Miles	Montgomery County, MD	Christopher J. Leicht	Cincinnati, OH	Billy Newsome	Atlanta, GA
Rodney E. Heindl	Decatur, GA	Sean P. Kaden	Branden, FL	Gil Pinsonneault	Winter Haven, FL
Richard M. Hill	Decatur, GA	Steven Osmansky	Kenosha, WI	Lorenzo Cox	Winter Haven, FL
Glen Hartenberger	Austin, TX	Scott B. Schumacher	Kenosha, WI

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Daryl Peake	Detroit, MI	Paul Stiggers	Cincinnati, OH	Martin Fuller	Montgomery Cty, MD
Anthony Licavoli	Detroit, MI	Thomas Flynn	Boston, MA	Joseph Fuller	Montgomery Cty, MD
Edward Nadolsky	Detroit, MI	Edward Loder	Boston, MA	Dennis Hollow	Lynn, MA
Orlando Willis	Prattville, AL	Peter Raiss	Detroit, MI	John Weeks	Lynn, MA
Bobby L. Davenport	Atlanta, GA	Robert Bittikofer	Detroit, MI	John Cooley	Montgomery Cty, MD
Mark L. Hatalla	Atlanta, GA	David Ellis	Dunbar, WV	Lee Marks	Teaneck, NJ
Clayton Jackson	Atlanta, GA	Mike Hoffman	Dunbar, WV	Robert Muhlhahn	Teaneck, NJ
Charles M. Covington	Atlanta, GA	Anthony G. Castellano	Brooklyn, NY	Brian Cleland	Detroit, MI
Chris E. Robinson	Shreveport, LA	Kevin Claiborne	Detroit, MI

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Darron Eberhardt	Freeport, NY	Christopher Gillespie	Boise, ID	Todd A. Wilbanks	Atlanta, GA
Jerry Festa	Freeport, NY	Edward Hill	Philadelphia, PA	Greg Nicholson	Charlotte, NC
Stanley Kistela	Freeport, NY	Chris Petty	Galveston, TX	Darrell J. Nieman	District of Columbia
Joe Stallone	Freeport, NY	Mike Wisko	Galveston, TX	Matthew Weber	District of Columbia
Craig Dougherty	Detroit, MI	Kari Lindberg	Columbus, OH	Jesse Robinson	Columbus, OH
Joseph A. Digiacomo	DeKalb County, GA	Barry Lewis	Shreveport, LA	Lillian SanPere	Miami, FL
Jeffrey Hackman	Miami, FL	Anthony Kelleher	Seat Pleasant, MD	Dominick M. Vallo	Jersey City, NJ

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John Skinner	Columbus, OH	Don Erbin	Erie, PA	Charles F. Dalferes	New Orleans, LA
Rex Stembridge	Murray City, UT	Joseph Petrone	Erie, PA	William J. Meyer	Boston, MA
Jerome Smith	Columbus, OH	Mark Yanes	Miami, FL	Frank Barbato	Rochester, NY
George Thibideaux	Boston, MA	Steve Refenes	Detroit, MI	Kevin G. Mitchell	Boston, MA
Michael Warnimont	Columbus, OH	Kenneth Jones	Boston, MA
Peter Pearson	Boston, MA	Edward Erickson	Miami, FL

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