Stephen Brunson is a busy gent who truly loves and thrives on what he does seven days a week, give or take a few hours here and there. Most working people do so within the framework of the 168 hours in a week. His work week? Would you believe between 90 and 100 hours?
A workaholic, maybe? “That’s a fair assessment,” he says.
This 48-year-old is a 19-year veteran of the Knoxville Fire Department (KFD). He’s the Green Shift captain at Station 5 in Mechanicsville. This is the city’s oldest active fire station, opening on May 23, 1909, built specifically for the horse-drawn fire apparatus used 117 years ago…