Connecticut Fire Fighter Needs Your Vote to Become America’s Most Wanted Grand Prize Winner

April 25, 2008 – Brad Sherman, a 30-year veteran with Fairfield, CT Local 1426, is one of eight finalists in the 2008 America’s Most Wanted (AMW) All-Star Contest. Sherman was nominated for going above and beyond the call of duty in his hometown of Fairfield, Connecticut, as well as in New York City and the Gulf Coast.

Click here to vote for Fairfield Local 1426 fire fighter Brad Sherman. You can vote once per day through May 6.

AMW Host John Walsh will present the winner with the check at the NASCAR SPRINT Cup Series All-Star Race in Charlotte, North Carolina, May 17, 2008. If he wins, Sherman will donate the $10,000 grand prize to fire fighter victims of Hurricane Katrina.

“I was surprised to hear that I was nominated,” says Sherman. “But, after spending time in Louisiana helping my fellow IAFF brothers and sisters recover from Hurricane Katrina, I knew exactly what I wanted to do with the money if I won. More than two years after the storm, homes and firehouses are still in need of repair. They need it more than I do.”

Sherman also helped organize a task force to travel to Ground Zero following the attacks on the World Trade Center, and helped search for survivors and provided a supportive presence at the many line-of-duty funerals.

In his hometown of Fairfield, Sherman is a certified HAZMAT Technician, confined space rescuer, certified diver and emergency medical technician (EMT). Sherman was nominated anonymously for the All-Start Contest and was cited for a save he made while responding to a one-story condominium fire several years ago. When he and his crew went inside to search for victims, they discovered an elderly woman and pulled her to safety.

Sherman has also been instrumental in helping a young Fairfield boy with a rare form of cancer – Neuroblastoma. Brent McCreesh had undergone both bone marrow and stem cell transplants, and when he was finally able to venture out, all he wanted was to see a fire truck. Sherman organized Brent’s first ride-along and later made him an honorary IAFF member with special turnout gear made for expressly for him.