Firefighter Corey Comperatore died during the Trump rally shooting while protecting his family and firefighters in rural Butler County remembered him for his sacrifices.
Firefighter Corey Comperatore, who died protecting his family from the man who attempted to dispatch Donald Trump, firefighters in rural Butler County remembered. Corey’s companion or fellow firefighters were not surprised by Corey’s sacrifice.
In an attempt to dispatch the former president in Pennsylvania, Comperatore died when 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks opened fire. Before Secret Service snipers killed Crooks, Trump as well as two others, were injured.
“His two girls and his wife was everything,” Kip Johnston, fire chief and 43-year Buffalo Township Volunteer Fire Company veteran, told the New York Post.
Back in the 2000s, Comperatore performed duty as chief of the company. Later, he decides to focus on his family leaving his duty role. He was a great firefighter and member of his company until his death.
Randy Reamer, a 15-year veteran and the fire company president said, ‘Great leader, great family man, good friend’
“He was one of the guys you wanted to go into a fire with, ’cause you knew you were coming back out,”. “Sh-t hit the fan, and you were coming back out with him.”
Johnston and Reamer remembered how Comperatore had always been vocal about his point of view towards politics. Although, he was never unkind towards people who vary. “You knew his [political] stance,” Reamer said. “If you accepted it, that’s fine. If you didn’t, that’s fine. He didn’t care.”
Johnston narrates Comperatore as a “great leader, great family man, good friend.”
Johnston’s wife, Lee Johnston, went to Buffalo Elementary School, where Comperatore’s two daughters be there at. Lee spoke very humbly of the family, despite the two girls not studying in her class.
Lee said, “We’ve had a very close relationship, not only at the fire company but outside of the fire company as well,”. “Their whole family is just very sweet people.”
on Sunday, July 14, The American flag was lowered half-staff outside the firehouse in Comperatore’s honour. Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro instructed flags in the state to be flown half-staff in Comperatore’s honour, respecting him by referring to him as a local hero.