A Rural Metro firefighter is already making a difference in the two months he's been out of the training academy. And, what he's doing he didn't learn there.
Firefighter Daniel Guerrero showed his skills during a call with fellow firefighters at Station 34 when they responded to a call in Knoxville.
.“Luckily I was on the call, because no one knew how to speak Spanish. So, I’m lucky I ran the call.," he told WATE.
“They were both Spanish speakers and you could tell they were panicking because no one knew English at the scene and they really didn’t know how to translate,” Guerrero tells Six News. “If they know at least someone is from their culture, they calm down just a bit.”
He knows first-hand how scary it can be.
“A lot of my family, they are from Mexico. They get scared if any higher law enforcement comes and talks to them,” says the Californian. “Knowing how it is in their shoes, I’d say you are calming them down a lot more because you’re coming from the same side as them.”
Aside, the teen says he hopes to add to this by reaching out to the youth in the area’s Hispanic communities.
