Department: Lubbock Fire Rescue<\/p>\n
Name: Kasey Davis<\/p>\n
Rank: Firefighter<\/p>\n
How long with department: 15\u00bd years<\/p>\n
Roles: Medical instructor, fire instructor, scuba instructor, Honor Guard member.<\/p>\n
Hometown: Ropesville<\/p>\n
Education (high school, college\/degrees): Three Way High School in Maple, northwest of Morton.<\/p>\n
Spouse: Married 15 years<\/p>\n
Children: Three boys<\/p>\n
Why did you choose this profession? I\u2019ve always been someone who likes doing things for people. I did electronics construction for residential and commercial jobs \u2013 electronics, wiring and stuff. But I got tired of it. I went into Station 14 and asked the guys if they like their jobs and they said they love their job. Everyone said it at same time. I had no fire background \u2013 I grew up on a farm \u2013 but I started pursuing it because it would give me a reason to go to work.<\/p>\n
How do you deal with stressful situations? It\u2019s different now than when I was younger. I learn how to take a stressful situation\/problem and figure out how to break it down, how to fix and solve. One step at a time to make the situation better. Learned a lot from my peers and veterans on how to compartmentalize and get through it. I also work with a counselor to have a baseline and not take it home. And being home with my family also helps.<\/p>\n
Honors\/highlights: Honor Guard is a big thing for firefighters who\u2019ve died. Public education with kids. And last August I also became fire chief for Ropesville after it was shut down in 2011.<\/p>\n
Hobbies & interests: Jujitsu. Traveling and seeing different parts of the country as a family. Building things at home \u2013 I\u2019m a handyman. Fishing and hiking.<\/p>\n
Community involvement beyond work: Substitute at school to give back and do CPR training classes.<\/p>\n
Quote: \u201cWe make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give,\u201d \u2013 Winston Churchill<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Department: Lubbock Fire Rescue Name: Kasey Davis Rank: Firefighter How long with department: 15\u00bd years Roles: Medical instructor,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":410445,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,170,169],"class_list":["post-410444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/410445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}