The Spokesman-Review
Jun. 21 — Ray Kresek has been struck by lightning three times. He’s watched colleagues die in fires. He saw a plane knock down a fire with dish soap. And he was among responders who pulled the bodies of 44 Air Force members from a plane crash.
As the 88-year-old former firefighter sat in his home Friday, surrounded by memorabilia of firefighting artifacts he has collected over the years, Kresek insisted — again and again — this story was not to be written about him…