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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nWhile working as a firefighter in 2004, Briscoe encountered a stranger who was trapped inside his burning home, unconscious and dying. Briscoe took no thought for his own safety when he arrived on the scene. Instead, he dashed into the flames and carried the man from the home, where he and other firefighters revived him. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In his free time, Briscoe began training his German shepherd, Anubis, to search for missing people. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI had no idea how or where to begin. But through persistence, dedication, long hours of training, tears, sweat, and blood, he passed the required test to become a certified search dog, along with me, a certified handler. This is very special because some had no faith that I would achieve this goal, which I persevered, and my faith was strong to never give up.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sometime later, a fellow firefighter requested help from Anubis and Briscoe for a search and rescue in Smiths Grove for a missing man.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe set out that Sunday with no clue where to go from where he was last seen, but we followed the nose of Anubis. He gave us many signs that were pertinent to the recovery of the missing man. After about four hours of searching, reading Anubis\u2019 behavior, and using the signs Mother Nature and the wildlife presented to us, we found exactly what we set out to find. It was a different outcome than we\u2019d hoped, but it gave the family closure, knowing he [had been] found. To this day, I still can\u2019t believe how far Anubis has come and that he works so proficiently at any job I give him to do.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Briscoe\u2019s work schedule as an EMT changed from working 24-hour shifts with 72 hours off to 12-hour shifts 4-5 days a week when stage 3 breast cancer struck the mother of his youngest daughter, his girlfriend Christina Wynne. Wynne\u2019s mother lost her battle with the BRCA\u00a0hereditary gene at 44, so Wynne and Briscoe made up their minds to face this battle together. After witnessing Wynne undergo a double mastectomy, damaged self-esteem, hair loss, and sickness from the chemotherapy, Briscoe said it\u2019s been a rough six months. However, this isn\u2019t the first battle he\u2019s faced, so he works hard to keep a smile on his face, especially when he thinks of what others have endured themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI look up to a lot of different people in this world, specifically to those who have endured hardships in life yet have prevailed and turned their life around. I commend those people. I, too, have had some unfathomable storms. I\u2019ve tried to turn my mess into a message for others, to motivate them so they can see that they can get through anything. Just keep moving forward, and things will fall into place accordingly. I try to motivate everyone [and remind them] that they are somebody, they are needed, and they are loved. It\u2019s also important to keep striving for your goals, never stop living, always be kind, and never stop believing in yourself.\u201d GN<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" JERAMIE BRISCOE is a full-time EMT, a doting father to five girls and one son, a former firefighter, and the owner of a highly acclaimed 4-year-old German shepherd named \u201cAnubis.\u201d With no formal K-9 Search and Rescue training, Briscoe painstakingly trained Anubis and was named a \u201chometown hero.\u201d He later received a valor award from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":21781,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stories"],"yoast_head":"\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/goodnewsmags.com\/bowling-green\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2024\/03\/2-1024x683.png\")
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