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| Rick Corcoran and Tom Blazer Kneeling, Rusty Tarleton Standing |
Remember my post the other day about the Store’s fire in 1983? (click here.) When I scanned in the picture (above) from the Enterprise newspaper that Buzzy had saved, I wondered who were the firemen in the picture.
Well, in Lowes yesterday I ran into Tom Blazer who, upon noticing my Buzzy’s Country Store logo on my shirt, informed me that he was one of the three Lexington Park Volunteer Firemen who were in the Enterprises’ picture putting out the fire at the Store in 1983. He informed me that Rick Corcoran and Rusty Tarleton were the other two firemen who were in the picture. Mystery solved.
Hearing Rusty’s name mentioned reminded me of another small world tie in with the Store fire. In 2008, as I was checking Buzzy into the Chesapeake Shores nursing home on Great Mills Road, Rusty greeted us. He told us that he had been working at the nursing home since 1983 and ironically enough his first day on the job was the day following the Store fire. Rusty recalled how he had spent most of the previous night putting out the Store fire but had to get up and go to work because it was his first day and he didn’t want to call in with an excuse. He said it was a very long first day on the job.
Later in 2008, the nursing home inducted residents and employees into their Hall of Fame. It was very appropriate that both Buzzy and Rusty were inducted at that time.
