A firefighter in western New York died after suffering a medical emergency while out on a call last month.
The Burdett Volunteer Fire Department announced the passing of firefighter Dale Jaynes in an online post late Tuesday. Janyes had suffered a medical emergency while responding to a fire Sept. 16, FireFighterCloseCalls.com reports.
"They say a community/Is only as strong as the people in it/With Dale Jaynes/This community never quit," a friend of Jaynes' wrote in a poem that was posted online Wednesday.
Along with serving with the Burdett VFD, Jaynes was also the deputy fire coordinator for Schuyler County.
