Had life gone another way, Jerry Buechner might’ve been a chef, a carpenter, or working in construction. He explored these fields and a few more. But with three brothers volunteering for the Mount Horeb Fire Department, perhaps it was inevitable he’d eventually become a firefighter.
“They really had to talk me into it,” said Buechner. “Once I got my feet wet, I was like, ‘This is awesome! I have to try doing this for a living.'”
The path to the Madison Fire Department wasn’t a straight line, though. Buechner was first hired to the Scottsdale Fire Department in Arizona, where he served for nine years and climbed the ranks. He was hired by the Green Bay Fire Department in 1999 and served only ten months before receiving news that he was accepted into MFD…