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Name: Brian Andrus

Age: 33

Title: Paramedic Firefighter and Fire Investigator

Years in Service for DeKalb: 8

Hobbies:

Boating on Lake Michigan

Favorite Sports Team:

Chicago Cubs “My family are Cub fans and I work a part-time job on the side near Wrigley Field.”

Favorite Movie:

“‘Office Space’ because we deal with the same issues that the movie addresses here at the station.”

How did you begin your career?

“I got trained in Downer’s Grove and Good Samaritan Hospital. I started doing part-time work in college as an EMT — lots of training.”

Something you do that you did not expect to do when you first started:

“We are teaching a lot of fire safety and fire prevention at all the DeKalb schools.”