Document Type
Worker Profile
Publication Date
2001
Excerpt
Matchbox fire trucks and ambulances line the dresser, arranged in a rescue scene. Surrounding the scene are department patches and rescue memorabilia. The setting looks like a child's room, but one look around at the chronically unmade bed, the stacks of CD's, papers, and books proves it to be a college dorm room. The inhabitant of the room, firefighter, emergency medical technician, and non-traditional student Andrew Olsen, says," All of the guys in the dorm make fun of me for having all these toys and things. I'm a 26 year old man (being old gets me my share of shit too, he jokes), but I've had these things since I was young. I loved to play rescue when I was little. While all the other little kids were watching 'Scooby Doo,' I watched reruns of this show, "Emergency." I idolized the main characters, Johnny and Roy. I guess I was a rescue nerd then, and a rescue nerd now."
Recommended Citation
Robinson, Hunter, "Initiation by Fire (2001)" (2001). The Valpo Core Reader. 149.
http://scholar.valpo.edu/core_reader/149
