Fire Marshal Bryan Thatcher

Jan 6, 2019 | EMT/Paramedic, Fire

Brian Thatcher (Draper Fire Department) 1973-2018 In a post on the Draper City Fire Department Facebook Saturday, they said Fire Marshal Bryan Thatcher unexpectedly passed away at his home ‘leaving a huge void in his family and our department.’ ...

Battalion Chief Matt Burchett

Jan 5, 2019 | EMT/Paramedic, Fire

Photo Courtesy Draper Fire 12/28/75 – 8/13/18 Battalion Chief Matt Burchett suffered injuries while fighting the Ranch Fire in an active area within the Mendocino Complex fire in California. He was air-lifted to a nearby hospital, where he later died. A...

LTC Stanley Lane

Jan 4, 2019 | Army

In 1917, Polish immigrant Stanley Lane enlisted in the Army on his 16th birthday. When his age was discovered he was offered a discharge, but he refused. His unit was shipped overseas but Lane was not permitted to go because of then-existing regulations restricting...

MAJ Audie Leon Murphy

Jan 3, 2019 | Army

Born in Kingston, Hunt County, Texas, on June 20, 1925, Audie Murphy was raised in a sharecropper’s dilapidated house. Murphy’s father, Emit, fell short on his parental responsibilities, continuing to father children, 12 in all, despite that fact that he...

Sgt Jacob M. Hess

Jan 2, 2019 | Marines

Several hundred people turned out Monday to honor Jacob Michael Hess, a 22-year-old Marine from Spokane who was killed in Afghanistan on Jan. 1. “Leave here today knowing he’s the best I’ve served with,” his supervisor, 1st Sgt. Leon Banta, told those gathered in...