When I Grow Up I Want to be Like This Guy!

Marc Lester / Anchorage Daily News / MARC LESTER / Anchorage Daily News  Pete Brown, Aniak's fire chief, oversees the Dragon Slayers, an organization of village teens who train as medics and respond to emergencies. He holds their mascot, a dragon skull that hangs in the training room of the fire station in 2003.

Marc Lester / Anchorage Daily News / MARC LESTER / Anchorage Daily News Pete Brown, Aniak's fire chief, oversees the Dragon Slayers, an organization of village teens who train as medics and respond to emergencies. He holds their mascot, a dragon skull that hangs in the training room of the fire station in 2003.

You might not know who Pet Brown is but you should. I didn’t before today. Here is the thing about Pete…He is going to die soon. Pete will die soon, but he won’t be forgotten.

Pete will not be forgotten because he left his stamp. He left his stamp on his community and they are proud.

Pete Brown, aka Chief Pete Brown, is the Fire Chief in the village of Aniak, Alaska.

This past Saturday they threw a party for Pete at his request. When Pete found out he was dying of terminal cancer, he decided to have a goodbye bash instead of waiting for his funeral for people to say goodbye.

I have to give it to this guy! What a class act. You want to know the kicker…They expected 500 at his party this past Saturday. The Population of Aniak is officially 494!

There is so much more to this story. You can read the entire story here. I will give you one excerpt below.

Among Brown’s accomplishments are creating a rescue squad for the town and creating the Dragon Slayers, a hybrid junior fire/ems squad.

It was a four-wheeler accident in the early 1990s — someone hit Jeremiah going roughly 45 miles per hour in Aniak, the son said — that showed Brown how much the village needed ambulance service.

He led the effort to start an emergency medical system. That lead to a training program for teenagers.