They say firefighters are like a family, a band of brothers that help serve and protect our homes and communities.
That couldn’t be truer for the neighborhoods of Kentwood and Byron Center, where the chiefs calling the shots at these departments are actual brothers who have a combined 60-plus years of experience protecting the areas we call home.
And being a firefighter is something that’s in the blood of the Looman’s.
“We were raised in a firefighter’s family, so it’s, I think, probably pretty early on, both of us kind of knew we’d end up in this career path,” said one of the brothers…