BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) -- People tend to reflect on the courage and commitment of our nation’s first responders mostly when some tragedy befalls them, as was the case this week with a San Bernardino County sheriff’s deputy responding to a domestic violence call-out.

That’s why it’s important to honor them at other times, too, with events like Union Cemetery’s First Responders Recognition Day.

The term “first responder” typically calls forth images of police officers and firefighters rushing in to save lives and property, lights flashing, sirens wailing -- and that’s a realistic scenario. The people of San Bernardino County know that story all too well following the shooting death of Deputy Andrew Nunez, gunned down Monday allegedly by a man who, after threatening a woman, led officer

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