Four Firefighters Awarded Medal of Valor

KOB TV - The Albuquerque Fire Department honored four members who went into a chaotic situation to save the lives of people from a fight that broke out January 1 in Downtown Albuquerque.
It was a wild start to 2012. Fights broke out in the middle of the street as the bars closed early New Year's morning. One man was shot on Central Avenue and when the Albuquerque Fire Department Engine 2 arrived on scene, it went from wild to worse. AFD firefighter 2nd Class Brett Rohrig was one of the first responders to arrive.

"Approaching the scene and the first cluster of fire. Pow-pow-pow went off," Rohrig explained.

AFD Lt. Matthew Sanchez was in charge of Engine 2. "It was total chaos, one of those things anybody in the fire department…instead of running away, they would all react."

Instead of moving away, they went toward the gunfire. That is when a second round of shots rang out. Read full story here: News New Mexico

Four Firefighters Awarded Medal of Valor