09-07-2006
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County Executive
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Member Since: Feb 2005
Location: California
Posts: 382
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Re: The Iraq Page, RIP soldiers
There isn't a picture posted of this brave EMT. He was 30, he died on Tuesday. Rest in peace Christopher.
Christopher G. Walsh
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St. Louis Today -- A St. Louis Fire Department emergency medical technician, who loved helping people so much that he signed up for the Navy Reserves, was killed in Iraq on Monday, according to the fire department and family members.
Relatives and friends said Christopher G. Walsh, 30, was killed while helping people - the same thing that drove him to join the fire department in 2001. The Department of Defense had not yet confirmed his death late Tuesday, and details of his death were not clear.
What was clear was that he chose his own path, said Timothy Kirchoff, a friend and firefighter who worked with Walsh for several years. Walsh had followed a family history of firefighting and military service and pushed to be sent to Iraq, family and friends said.
"He said he was a little scared," Kirchoff said. "But he wanted to go over there. He basically wanted to expand his training and experience. He wanted to be on the front lines."
Kirchoff said Walsh was a talented EMT and partner in a profession that requires trust.
"He was by far the best EMT I ever worked with," said Kirchoff, who was a paramedic until heading for firefighter training shortly before Walsh left for Iraq. "He really cared for the people of the city and wanted to work for them. And when something went wrong, I knew he was there with me."
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