Firefighter Down!

As you all know this radio show looks out for our first responders nationwide. We never ask someone to open their wallet unless we do it first. I even drank water from the reflecting pool at the Washington Monument for Detroit’s Bravest! Well, a firefighter’s family in Flint, MI needs our help. Firefighter Ricky Hill Jr died in the line of duty February 25. Hill has been with the Flint Fire Department for 15 years. Here’s what we know from our friend Charlie LeDuff at No Bullshit News. 1) Hill was working a double shift. A double in most fire departments are 48 hours, not 24 hours. 2) Hill’s wife is on the hook for the funeral cost. The City of Flint did not pick up the tab. 3) Hill’s wife can not get a copy of her husband’s death certificate from the county coroner to submit to the insurance company. And here’s is the real kick in the teeth. Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer sent a letter to the Hill family, expressing condolences, putting the wrong name on the letter! And she didn’t even sign it, it was a robo signature! Compare that to Rudy Giuliani who stepped in to give the sister of a fallen firefighter away at a wedding in September, 2001 with lower Manhattan in ruins, or Donald Trump who not only flew to Dover Air Base to receive the caskets of fallen soldiers in the middle of the night, but also spoke to families of fallen soldiers and called out the family of Detective Miosotis Familia at a Law Enforcement Memorial Ceremony. Someone set up the Hill family a go fund me account to make ends meet.

This is not the first time a fallen first responder got the short end of the stick. In 2016 Sergeant Kenneth Steil from the Detroit Police Department was shot and killed. The City of Detroit would not pay for the funeral. The city offers life insurance to the new officers coming in. That’s it! No rookie cop comes in thinking that they’re going to die in the line of duty. And again, LeDuff stepped in and did what he can!

Like most of you I am sick and tired of our heroes treated like shit! The sacrifices our GI’s make, there should be no Wounded Warrior Program. But; our government would rather spend it on social programs and aid to everyone else! Same thing for our cops, firemen and EMT’s! Under paid, under equipped and underappreciated. And this was before St. George of Fentanyl. The politicians love the criminals, degenerates, and welfare bums!

Things are already getting worse. But: if you can help the Hill family, it would be much appreciated. And I won’t ask anyone to do anything that I wouldn’t do or haven’t already done!