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photo by: Joselyn King<\/p>\n
Wheeling Assistant Fire Chief Eric Cianelli, left, and firefighters Courtney Engle, Robert Heldreth and Matt Beiter attend the \u201cSalute To Heroes\u201d service Sunday at Bethlehem Apostolic Temple in North Wheeling.\n<\/p>\n
WHEELING \u2014 Bethlehem Apostolic Temple wants the public to know \u201cheroes don\u2019t always wear capes.\u201d The church hosted its annual \u201cSalute To Heroes\u201d service on Sunday, and invited local first responders to participate.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re very, very grateful to them, but sometimes in an emergency we don\u2019t get a chance to recognize them,\u201d Bishop Darrell Cummings said. \u201cThe truth is, we should be recognizing them every day.\u201d<\/p>\n
Some members of the Wheeling Fire Department present actually got a call during the service, and had to run out to respond.<\/p>\n
Among the items presented to the first-responders was a pin stating, \u201cHeroes don\u2019t always wear capes.\u201d They also received a cross with the American flag attached, as well a coin containing the Bible verse Isaiah 6:8. In the verse, God asks, \u201cWhom shall I send? And who will go for us?\u201d Isaiah responds, \u201cHere am I. Send me.\u201d<\/p>\n
Much of the event made note of an incident on Oct. 19 on GP&C Road during which Ohio County deputies and emergency personnel from the West Liberty Volunteer Fire Department ran back into a gas-filled basement to bring out a man who had collapsed there from the fumes.<\/p>\n
It was later determined the fumes were a combination of sewer gas and carbon monoxide, and the gentleman would later die at the hospital, according to Ohio County Sheriff Nelson Croft.<\/p>\n
Croft spoke Sunday on behalf of deputies Aidan Zamborsky and Brenda Lesnett, who were evaluated at Wheeling Hospital for effects of gas inhalation following the incident and returned to duty the next day.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt didn\u2019t hit me until I was driving to the hospital \u2026 I almost lost two of my kids, and two of my best friends in the fire department,\u201d he said. \u201cThank God, he protected them.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ed Wolf and his daughter Elizabeth were the emergency volunteers who responded from the West Liberty VFD.<\/p>\n
Ed Wolf explained why they made the decision to venture into the basement knowing there were potentially deadly gases there.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf there was any chance of saving his life, we had to do that,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Cummings said last year the church received a letter asking if 911 dispatchers also could be included when honoring first responders, as their service in taking the call is vital in an emergency.<\/p>\n
He said the church \u201chas not been successful yet\u201d in finding out how to get 911 dispatchers represented at the event, and members will continue to reach out to invite them to future events.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"photo by: Joselyn King Wheeling Assistant Fire Chief Eric Cianelli, left, and firefighters Courtney Engle, Robert Heldreth and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36323,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154],"class_list":["post-36322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36322","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=36322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}