Firefighter Matt Holladay

Apr 15, 2019 | Fire

July 6, 2013 Holladay shouldn’t have been working June 25. But the six-year veteran of the Cocoa Fire Department traded a shift with a fellow firefighter and was on duty by 7:30 a.m. Shortly thereafter, he found himself in the training room of the station house....

Takerra Brown

Apr 14, 2019 | 911 Dispatcher

Smyrna, Georgia (4/20/18) A 911 dispatcher in Smyrna is being called a hero after she saved the life of an elderly woman. Takerra Brown answered a call where she could faintly hear someone on the line requesting “help” but she couldn’t tell where the...

Lieutenant Debra Lucinda Clayton

Apr 13, 2019 | Police

Orlando Police Department, Florida End of Watch Monday, January 9, 2017 Lieutenant Debra Clayton was shot and killed when she encountered a wanted murder suspect in the parking lot of a Walmart at the intersection of Princeton Street and John Young Parkway. A citizen...

Maj Jacquelyn S. “Jackie” Parker

Apr 12, 2019 | Air Force

It was a proud moment in July 1988 when Capt. Jacquelyn S. “Jackie” Parker became the first woman Air Force pilot to attend U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School at Edwards AFB, California. Those who knew her, however, were not surprised ˆ Jackie had learned to...

Lt. Col. Richard Cole (Ret.)

Apr 11, 2019 | Air Force

Retired Lt. Col. Richard Cole, the last survivor of the Doolittle Raid, the first U.S. strike on the Japanese islands during World War II, died Tuesday (April 9, 2019) in Texas. He was 103. Cole was one of 80 men sent to target factory areas and military installations...