Mickey Dearmon and the media.

As we all know, the news can get to be one sided. Especially when you have become a social pariah.
A lot of times the media twists around events in your life to better suit the sales for their paper, or to elicit a certain response from the public masses. So here's a story for you.

I was in a fire that devastated my family. My toddler did not survive this experience, and my husband would have perished as well, but the fire department was swift and thorough.
I remember scattered thoughts and images, with people trying to save what I desperately needed help with. I know of at least two of the Dearman’s that were there, and was told by other fire fighters that he (Mickey Dearman) tried to revive my son long after what he “had to.” These men sat with me at his funeral, and were present multiple times while my husband was in a coma, and had pneumonia in his lungs. After my husband was released from the hospital, they further helped me. Yes, these men that tried to save my family did not stop helping me until I could put the pieces back in my life.
I can never thank the Dearman’s for all that they have done for Semmes. They were part of a team of people who touched my heart with the fire department. They regularly go
to a variety of fires, pull teenagers out of burning cars, and scrape people I know off of Moffatt Rd, and the hairpin curves of Firetower Rd. I could not contain the sadness in my heart for what they do. These are the kind of Dearman’s that I know. These men have shown on more than one occasion in my life their level of compassion.

One of the things that I grew up with was that family was what you made of it. And when you have family, you talk to them. Family isn’t always the people that you are born with, but that you love and care for. When there is a shortage of people that care, you understand quickly just how far you will go for someone you call a friend.

Sometimes that means bailing someone out of jail. If this guy would rush into a burning building for strangers, what do you think he would do for a friend? Remember that loyalty is a good thing. Friendship is a cherished thing. This is what it means to be charitable, and to not cast stones.