Responder Chronicles

Responder Chronicles

Real Stories from First Responders of all types: Law Enforcement, Fire, EMS, 911 Dispatcher. These men and women will tell true stories from their experience while on the job. Stories of bravery, heroism, fear, shock, and some that are just strange. IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO BE ON THE SHOW AND SHARE YOUR STORIES: CONTACT ME AT: responderchronicles@gmail.com

Episodes

February 28, 2026 48 mins

As a First Responder with 39 years of experience, Fire Chief Brad Baker, Allentown FL Volunteer Fire and Rescue, shares stories of his career that involved serving the community as a Firefighter, Paramedic, and a 911 Dispatcher. Brad is also the Santa Rosa County Manager. He shares stories of how he became involved as a Firefighter II then as a Paramedic, 911 Dispatcher. Stories of residential structure fires, horrific motor vehicl...

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Firefighter Collin Workman is in this episode with his wife as he discusses his experiences of being a firefighter in Alaska and now in Florida.  ARFF experience, racetrack, 3 seaplane crash and recovery of victims, retraining in Florida, truck driver entrapment, river rescue, race car entrapment, family history of firefighting, wife support, wedding night fire.

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January 19, 2026 1 min

Promo for FF Collin Workman

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November 20, 2025 1 min

Promo for Jen Frank episode 11.20.25

 

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November 20, 2025 37 mins

Milton Florida Chief of Police, Jen Frank, shares stories of some of the interactions she's had over the 20 years as a law enforcer.  As a teacher, a student pointed a gun at her, which led to her becoming a cop.  Stories of domestic violence, DUI, strange encounters such as a nude man driving, fireworks in the anus of man, nude bicycle rider, as well as her take on what a cop should be and what a police force should strive to be. ...

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Chandler Hinote, a 2 year member of the Allentown Fire and Rescue District, shares what it is like to enter into the volunteer fire service and how the training was for him.   A unique perspective for those who may also be interested in becoming a volunteer.  

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Fire Fighter from Florida, Brandon Corn, shares some stories from his ongoing 20+ year career as a Volunteer Fire Fighter in Northwest Florida.  From one of the very first calls where he came up on a MVA with 2 deceased occupants and a possible missing baby.  A fully engulfed church fire with rollover, a child that codes, and the strange way a truck lands into a stream. 

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August 28, 2025 46 secs

Season 3 Promo Brandon Corn

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Mike Simmons, career spanning 4 years as a Detention Deputy for the Escambia FL County Jail, then a 30 year career as a Pensacola FL Police officer, and now as the director of the George Stone Technical College Criminal Justice Training Center in Pensacola, FL.  Shares his intense stories from both the jail and on patrol (inmate hanging, thief hiding in the cemetery, bullets fired at him, controlling 3 suspects by himself, he/she p...

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Daryl Songer, fire fighter with 29 years of experience, with volunteer fire, Roanoke City, Virginia, and military service in Afghanistan, shares his stories of a large electrical room fire at a hospital, drivers ignoring barricades, and the dedication it takes to do the job. 

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Chief Steve Rowell (with a 51 year career and counting) tells his stories of volunteering as a fire fighter, training, scene management, intense calls from MVA's multiple fatalities, small airplane crash, house fire with 2 fatalities, car cut in half in an accident, comedic river rescue, truck in tree.  

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Retired Los Angeles, CA firefighter captain with 34 years of experience shares his stories of what it was like to serve in the 1960's through the middle 0f the 1990's.  California wildfires, encouraging training from senior fire fighters, early female firefighters, pranks played on each other including the fire chief, out of town fire department officer gets an eye full of city shenanigans, loss of a dear friend, words of wisdom.

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Police officer in the State of Ohio, shares his stories over a 21 year career in which he comes across a child trapped under a collapsed roof, searching a church for an intruder, a suspect with a taser probe in or near belly button, encounters with career criminals, and words of wisdom for anyone looking to get into law enforcement.  

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Fire Chief, John King, who has over 24 years of experience in fire, shares his stories.  MVA with injuries and loss of life, Imogene Theatre fire, drunk teens, old men swimming in alligator infested water, Hooter girls lost on river, tree through a house.  

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James Ghi served the community as a firefighter for 34 years in several different fire departments in different roles, from a volunteer at 16 years old, to finishing out his career as a Chief Fire Marshal Battalion Fire Chief with the St. Johns Fire District in South Carolina.  He served in Maryland, Virginia and in South Carolina.  He came to the Charleston, S.C. Fire Department shortly after the devastating fire at the Sofa Super...

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Volunteer Firefighter, Jeff Jackson, shares his stories of 24 years of service in which he's responded to countless MVA on I-10, housefires, training with Sheriff deputies and other nearby fire departments. Stories from an MVA where there was a victim that was decapitated, a house fire where the unfortunate couple perished along with their dog and the lasting mental issue that Jeff had to work through.  Story of multiple vehicle fi...

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Joel Richardson, an active firefighter for Escambia County Florida Fire, shares how he became a firefighter, and some of the stories he's personally experienced fighting fires as both a volunteer and full-time firefighter.  He also has several years of experience as a flight Medic on a medical helicopter transporting both sick and severely injured patients.  Stories of trying to reach a possible entrapped child, to having those day...

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Volunteer Firefighter with dispatch and lifeguarding experience tell his stories of service of deadly car accidents, gunshot wound patients, rescues on the water and words of wisdom as he is also a pastor of a church.

 

 

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Detention deputy shares his experience as a new corrections officer and witnessing two separate jail gang members beat each other in which an inmate loses and eye.  Another story in which an inmate believes he's on a ship out at sea, another inmate high on spice attacks him, and his experience of running into people who were once in jail.    

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Florida Deputy Sheriff with experience as a dispatcher and as a current active firefighter shares his experiences in all three jobs.   Stories of horrific car accidents, cpr on family members, car chase, annoying questions, man trying to protect himself from alien brain-washing, academy training, and how God works in his life.  

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