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Albany \u2013 Deputy Sheriff Christopher Parker of the Genesee County Sheriff\u2019s Office has been selected as the 2017 New York State Sheriffs\u2019 Institute\u2019s Deputy of the Year. He was nominated for the award by Sheriff William A. Sheron, Jr.<\/p>\n
This statewide award was presented at the New York State Sheriffs\u2019 Institute\u2019s Annual Awards Luncheon, which is annually held in Albany.<\/p>\n
On September 13, 2016, the Genesee County Emergency Dispatch Center received a report of a fire in a six-apartment complex in the Town of Pavilion, Genesee County. Deputy Chris Parker was the first law enforcement officer on the scene. When he arrived, he observed a fire in apartment #6. Thick, black smoke was rolling out of the building. Deputy Parker, without regard for his own safety and without any protective breathing apparatus or gear, entered apartment #5 to check for residents.<\/p>\n
After he cleared the ground floor of that apartment, he entered apartment #4 and cleared that as well. In doing so, he realized that the apartments were two stories, and he had not cleared the second story of apartment #5, directly next to the fire. He returned to #5 to check the upstairs. As he entered a bedroom on the second floor, he discovered an elderly man asleep in a bed. The room was filling with smoke. He woke the man and got him out of the building. Deputy Parker then continued to clear apartments as firefighters started to arrive. This effort was all captured on Parker\u2019s body camera.<\/p>\n
Given the fact that the elderly man was sound asleep as smoke crept in his bedroom, Deputy Parker\u2019s quick, fearless actions most likely saved the elderly man\u2019s life.<\/p>\n
\u201cDeputy Parker\u2019s heroic action, in which he reentered a building fully engulfed in flames, to rescue an elderly man meets the Deputy of the Year Award\u2019s criteria perfectly,\u201d stated the Award\u2019s Selection Committee\u2019s Chairman, Sheriff Ron Spike of Yates County. \u201cDeputy Parker put his life on the line to save the life of another. In today\u2019s society we use the word hero pretty loosely, but not in this particular case. Deputy Parker is a hero in the true definition of the word.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Albany \u2013 Deputy Sheriff Christopher Parker of the Genesee County Sheriff\u2019s Office has been selected as the 2017 New York State Sheriffs\u2019 Institute\u2019s Deputy of the Year. He was nominated for the award by Sheriff William A. Sheron, Jr. This statewide award was presented at the New York State Sheriffs\u2019 \u2026<\/p>\n