For six years Jacob Stewart has been strapping on the boots and zipping up his jacket to serve you with Madison Fire & Rescue. “There’s no greater feeling,” he says. “It’s just, that’s what we’re here to do. We’re here to help the community in any way we can.”
“Anything we ask him to do, it doesn’t matter what it is, on a day to day. If I ask him to do it, I know it’s going to be completed and done in a timely manner,” says Stewart’s Supervisor, Richard Ennis.
Stewart says he didn’t set out to be a fire fighter. “I went to college to play baseball and decided I didn’t want to sit at a desk 9-5. I wanted to get something to be physically active, help the community.”
Instead, he followed his uncle to the Madison Fire Department. “He kinda led me to this role I’m actually in right now,”says Stewart.
In that role, Stewart has excelled. “He was actually my paramedic student as he went through medic school,” says Ennis. “And now, he’s one of our lead paramedics on our shift.”