I found this on my department's forum, it is not held by the county and is run by us. Just wanted you to know that others feel your loss and I wish everyone the best in this difficult time.
City officials are waiting for answers after a 22-year-old Jacksonville Fire-Rescue recruit died nine days after he collapsed during training.
Karl "Kliff" Kramer collapsed May 19 while undergoing physical training at the department's fire academy.
Kramer died Saturday at Memorial Hospital, where he had been in intensive care since his collapse.
A spokeswoman for the Jacksonville Fire Department would not comment on the specifics of Kramer's death until an autopsy is conducted to determine the cause of his death.
"The training academy continually looks at the way they conduct exercise," spokeswoman Benny Seth said. "They continuously monitor the weather conditions, and those things will continue on as scheduled."
Other fire recruits told Channel 4's Bryan Kelly that the intense training makes everyone in the class close, "like a family."
"He had a real strong personality," Fire-Rescue cadet Mike Blcher said. "Whatever we were doing, he was always light hearted. We'll miss him."
Stay safe my brothers
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All of us that live in the Public Service world try to fool ourselves that we have a pretty normal job and we live pretty normal lives, but it's things like this that reminds us that any of us can be snatched away at anytime doing the job we want to do.
As my time has progressed as a Police Officer, I've seen a good many Police and FireFighters not make it home, but I am sure each of them left us happy in their chosen professions and wouldn't not have traded the experience even if they knew how it was going to end.
I firmly believe in the quote, A lot heroes aren't heroes because of the way they died, but because of the way they lived.
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