GETTIN SALTY EXPERIENCE PODCAST Ep.140 | DETROIT RIOTS - FF. FRANK DECKER

Gettin' Salty Experience Firefighter Podcast

Gettin Salty Experience

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🗓️ 2 May 2023

⏱️ 123 minutes

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GETTIN' SALTY EXPERIENCE PODCAST Ep.140 - Our special guest will be 86 year old and 17 year Detroit FD veteran Frank Decker. He was assigned in 1957 and was assigned to Engine 42 and ladder 21 in 1957. He transferred to Engine 21 and Ladder 28 in 1958. In 1959 he worked in Engine 40 and Ladder 17. In 1965 he transferred to Squad 5. He transferred to Engine 39 in 1968 until his retirement in 1973 which was unfortunately cut short by a line of duty injury. He worked through one of the craziest times in our countries history...The Detroit Riots. It exploded into one of the deadliest and most destructive riots in American history, lasting five days. The riot resulted in 43 deaths, 1,189 injured, over 7,200 arrests, and more than 400 buildings destroyed. His older brother did 40 years in Detroit FD and two of his grandsons both work in Charlotte FD and Little Rock FD. You don’t want to miss this one.
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0:00.0	You're listening to put the fucking fire out.
0:18.6	You're listening to the getting salty experience podcast.
0:28.0	You're muted, your knucklehead.
0:29.5	I told you that before we started.
0:34.5	Oh, yeah.
0:36.8	We are back. And you know what? When you said that, I was like, yeah, I know. Yeah. I know, we are back.
0:38.3	And you know what?
0:38.8	When you said that, I was like, yeah, I know.
0:40.0	Yeah, like I know, right.
0:42.8	Yeah.
0:42.8	Gonzo's muted too.
0:47.0	We are back.
0:48.8	I feel like we got so much to talk about because we've been away for over a week, bro.
0:53.1	Good stuff.
0:54.0	Some good stuff.
0:54.6	Yeah, it was a great week. Me and Ruffy and Cliffy on the road, bro, doing it out in Indy.
1:01.2	I saw. You guys. People. By the way, welcome back to getting told the experience podcast.
1:06.0	It's the only one the whole one world that brings a firehouse kitchen table to you.
1:10.4	We saw a lot of imposter's
1:11.9	out there bro roaming around all over the place you know oh we bring the kitchen table no i bring the
1:16.1	kitchen table well i bring the kitchen table well here's a kitchen table it's like what what what
1:21.3	what what kitchen tables all over the place there's only one that does and. And it's this one. And we're back.
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