Cleveland.com
CLEVELAND — Lt. William L. Walker wasn’t just any firefighter.
“He was a firefighter’s firefighter,” Frank Szabo, president of Cleveland Firefighters Local 93 said. “He always put everyone else’s needs ahead of his own.” Walker, a 15-year veteran in the Cleveland Fire Department, was gunned down in the driveway of his Lampson Road home at about 8:30 p.m. Sunday. Cleveland Police continue to investigate, but have not arrested any suspects.
Walker, 45, joined the department in March of 1998. He was a member of the department’s elite Rescue Squad 4, the most highly trained firefighters skilled in the most demanding rescues – high-angle and rope-line rescues. When the merger of the fire department and the EMS services was announced, Walker was tapped to oversee quality assurance in the department’s EMT office and the EMS.
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