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Bluebag Media
Retiring
captain will miss his fire “family”
GREENVILLE – “I was 10 minutes into my first shift (as captain) when we
got a call on a structure fire with people trapped on the second
floor,” said retiring Greenville Fire Department Capt. Jeff Dohme. No
one was hurt, however, as someone had backed a van up to the structure
and those trapped were able to jump on top of it.
That was 1999. Dohme had already been with the department for a little
over 13 years when he passed his promotion test. He was sworn in as
Captain at 8 a.m. on April 1. The call came in at 8:10.
Fifteen years later, after 28 and a half years of service to the
citizens of Greenville, Capt. Dohme shook hands with his fellow
firefighters and received the ceremonial ride home at 7 a.m. March 31.
His final shift had just ended. The memories, however, will stay with
him.
Dohme recalled the Snapper Warehouse fire at the old American Ag
building on Pine Street. Damage estimates were well over $1 million. He
also remembered the Pine Street fire in 2000 where a little girl had
been lost. “Fire was coming out of every window… she was trapped up
there,” he said. He was off duty at the Montgomery Street fire, but
showed up anyway, helping where he was needed...
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