The South Milwaukee Fire Department helped celebrate a birthday to remember this week.
Oct. 19, 2010. That’s when a South Milwaukee ambulance crew was called to assist a woman in labor. En route to the hospital, the ambulance ended up pulling over on College Avenue just west of 15th.
A few minutes later, little Anya was born.
Anya and her family stopped by the firehouse to celebrate her first birthday this week … and that’s the origin of this photo.
From left to right in the photo are father Juan Cazares, firefighter/paramedics Tim Wendt and Ryan Kurz, Anya, Alana (Anya’s 2-year-old sister) and mother Lauren Figueroa.
Consider it another story of first-class local firefighters in action. And happy birthday, Anya!
On another note, I also want to thank the firefighters who stopped by my house on Thursday to deliver the Pizza Hut pizza we ordered. This annual partnership with Pizza Hut — in which local firefighters delivered pizza to area residents, free of charge if they had a working smoke detector — is a great and unique way to encourage fire safety.
And the pizza wasn’t bad either 🙂
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Thank you! Great job