Honoring the efforts of a Mansfield firefighter who did everything he could to save lives.

The deputy fire chief was recognized by the town Monday night for rushing inside a home near his house when it caught fire last month. He ended up hospitalized, but just returned to work.

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“We train until we don’t get it wrong and it’s the hours and hours that we beat on our craft that make us who we are,” Kevin Danielson, deputy fire chief for the Mansfield Fire Department, said.

He takes training seriously at the fire department and those skills were tested when he responded to a farm fire last month, as he was returning home from another call.

“Structure fire. 441 Warrenville Road. Got into my chief’s car and went down,

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