The volunteers respond when they want to. We would be lucky to have one person respond for an emergency call.

It's really not one of those things that aches or hurts when you're not doing anything,

You don't respond to everybody, and not everybody responds to you.

When the chief would ask for volunteers for anything, Roger was always one of the first to volunteer.

He comes to me when I call him. One day I was by the mailbox and I called for him, and he came running across the lawn to me. It was so funny.

I was just lucky to be here after [Saturday]. I was one person away from not making the cut.