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Fire department gets grant for EMS bike team

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Jun 13, 2003
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http://www.examiner.com/a-315336~Fire_department_gets_grant_for_EMS_bike_team.html

BALTIMORE - Baltimore firefighter Joseph Bayne died fighting a blaze in the 11th-floor offices of Riggs, Counselman, Michaels & Downes insurance company in 1977 in what is now the Legg Mason building. Nearly 30 years later, when the firm received a grant through the Fireman’s Fund Insurance Co. to be donated at its discretion, it remembered who to honor.

The firm and Fireman’s Fund Insurance presented the Baltimore City Fire Department with a $30,000 check Wednesday morning to support the department’s fire prevention bureau and paramedic bike team. The money will purchase equipment, supplies and training materials in addition to funding the department’s annual October Fire Prevention Month activities. Jean Bayne, Joseph Bayne’s widow, attended the ceremony at the Oldtown Fire Station with her sons Robert, also a Baltimore fire fighter, and youngest son George. The couple’s oldest son, Joe Jr., is a Franciscan priest and fire company chaplain in Buffalo.