James Mitchell
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6,764 appearances
46 recordings
3 series
first heard Oct 2023
last heard 14 Sep
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So thank you for those folks that keep those things going.
And lastly, he's not on stage.
He's hiding back here in the hole.
So thank you, Chief.
Lastly, I'd be remiss.
There are only a few folks from my personal family here in attendance.
My dad was mentioned earlier and my wife, Macy.
My wife and I have two boys, Elliot and Kipton, who are not in attendance.
They're seven and five.
He was promoted to deputy chief in 2015, and one of the things that sticks out from my young development as a young firefighter, we were involved together in the volunteer service
and he told me one time that being involved in fire department special operations and fire service training proved beneficial for his professional development, and I agree.
So if you look on the back of your program, those four core values are listed again.
So I'm speaking to one in particular, and that is perseverance.
So it's going to be a little bit of cliche.
But when we apply that to the context of this fire department, I can shorten it up for y'all.
When things are hard, we're not going to quit or we don't quit.
You all have seen examples of this in each other over the last 27 weeks, which are some things that have already been mentioned and will be mentioned, like PT, pushing through the skills when they were a challenge, overcoming fears.
And I would also like to think, given the circumstances with my injury, you maybe learned a thing or two with that as well.
But the reason why perseverance is an important core value is simple.
Not pushing through does not only mean that the task doesn't get complete,
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