Firefighter
Places Third in
World Firefighter
Combat Challenge
Chris Cerci hopes his example
encourages other firefighters to
take fitness seriously.
Once I started
doing the training,
the adrenalin rush
was great, and I
decided to go for it.
A
few decades ago, as a new arrival
to Pittsburgh, Chris Cerci lived in
Bethel Park and would often drive
by Bethel Park Fire Department’s
main station along Brightwood Road. The
station’s sign would catch his eye until one
day, he did something about it.
“I thought, ‘I’ll stop in and see what
membership means,’” Cerci recalled. “I
stopped in to see what it’s all about…
But once I started doing the training, the
adrenalin rush was great, and I decided to go
for it.”
Just weeks later he was on his first call