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Giving back: LMU-DCOM students serve with local volunteer fire department

When they’re not in class or taking exams, these osteopathic medical students fight fires with the Cumberland Gap (Tennessee) volunteer fire department.

When Brandon Wilkinson, OMS I, started osteopathic medical school last year, he signed up to be part of the local volunteer fire department. By October, he’d been named volunteer fire chief.

Wilkinson, who previously worked as an EMT in the Los Angeles area, is a first-year student at the Lincoln Memorial University-DeBusk College of Osteopathic Medicine in Harrogate, Tennessee. He’s one of several LMU-DCOM students who’ve completed the 80-hour training to serve with the Cumberland Gap volunteer fire department.

In a local news story, Wilkinson describes being called to a fire scene at 11 p.m. and returning home at 4 a.m. the night before a final exam. In response to that fire, LMU-DCOM students organized a fire prevention campaign and distributed 126 smoke alarms in homes near the one where the fire had occurred.

For the full story, visit WBIR.com.

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