The two men were killed in the line of duty last Saturday<\/a>, a loss that has deeply shaken the tight-knit fire community.<\/p>\n\u201cIt\u2019s a big story and unfortunately it\u2019s our department, and no department should have to go through it, losing two chiefs \u2014 losing one member in general,\u201d Tyson said. \u201cBut the community comes together and everybody sticks together.\u201d<\/p>\n
In the days since the tragedy, support has poured in from fellow first responders, friends and neighbors, all showing what the two men meant to the people they served.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey just made you laugh all the time. I don\u2019t know, it\u2019s kind of hard to describe,\u201d Tyson said. \u201cYou had to know who they were to truly understand the people that they were.\u201d<\/p>\n
Beyond their uniforms, Buck and Shick Jr. are being remembered for their compassion and the way they made others feel.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey dedicated their lives to helping other people. You don\u2019t have to be in the position of a first responder to help somebody,\u201d Tyson said. \u201cIt only takes a couple minutes to ask someone how their day is going, and that could make a big difference.\u201d<\/p>\n
That message is resonating far beyond Fleetwood, reminding the community to slow down, check in and take care of one another.<\/p>\n
\u201cJust take a couple of minutes to talk to someone and ask how their day is going because you don\u2019t know when you can\u2019t have that conversation,\u201d Tyson added.<\/p>\n
As their families, their department and an entire community say their final goodbyes, their legacy lives on in every life they touched.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hundreds gathered in Fleetwood to honor two fallen fire chiefs killed in the line of duty, as their…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":163387,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":["post-163386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}