Following the 2017 wildfires, thousands of North Bay residents owed a debt of thanks to first responders.
Rick Allen understands that gratitude toward first responders. He owes them his life.
Allen is renowned as the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame drummer for Def Leppard—the Sheffield, England-born band that launched in the late 1970s as darlings of heavy metal’s “new wave” and went on to release a string of best-selling albums throughout the 1980s and ‘90s. Their string of hits includes “Photograph,” “Foolin’,” “Rock of Ages,” “Hysteria,” “Animal,” “Pour Some Sugar on Me,” “Let’s Get Rocked,” among others staples of classic rock radio…