NEW YORK — We wrote last week about all the ridiculous mainstream media propaganda campaigns attempting to normalize heart attacks and sudden deaths in young people. The headlines are incredibly asinine and insulting to intelligent people. Now the New York City Fire Chief wants everyone to believe that a young, trained firefighter failed to recognize potential injuries and died from his own negligence.

Mr. Jesse Gerhard had one goal from the time he was a child – to be a firefighter. The-33-year-old began his career with the New York Fire Department (“FDNY”) in 2014 as an emergency medical technician (EMT). He graduated from the Fire Academy in April 2018, and fulfilled his lifelong dream when he was assigned to Engine Company 264 in Far Rockaway.

Mr. Jesse Gerhard with his proud parents.

The 33-year-old battled a 2-alarm fire at 25-43 Beach Channel Drive in Far Rockaway on February 15. It was nothing out of the ordinary for a firefighter. He went home that night as normal, uninjured and resting up for another day of work with the busiest fire department in the United States.

Sudden death

Mr. Gerhard was working the night shift the following day, February 16. But around 11 p.m., he collapsed at the fire station. His colleagues immediately administered CPR before an ambulance rushed Mr. Gerhard to St. John’s Episcopal Hospital. He died a short time alter. The FDNY said he suffered from a “sudden medical episode.”

NBC New York and several other mainstream media outlets reported that Mr. Gerhard suffered from a heart attack.

But most of said news outlets backtracked thereafter, and are now saying the cause of death is unknown. FDNY Chief John Hodgens tried pushing the idea that a young, well-trained trained firefighter somehow died of smoke inhalation more than 24 hours after he battled a fire.

The 2020 Firefighter Fatalities report by the National Fire Protection Association found that 140 firefighters died on duty in the United States that year. So-called COVID-19 was blamed in 78 of those deaths. Four of said deaths were due to smoke inhalation. All of them were at the actual scene of the fire. The report also found that sudden cardiac arrest is the most common cause of death for firefighters. But nearly two-thirds of those victims in 2020 were over age 45. None were under age 35.

Fire union demands answers

Mr. Gerhard is the third FDNY firefighter to die on duty since December. Mr. Vincent Malveaux was a 31-year-old trainee at the Fire Academy on Randall’s Island.

He died on December 2 after suffering from a “medical episode” during the training course. Mr. Joseph Maiello was a 53-year-old firefighter in Staten Island.

He was found dead on-duty at the firehouse on December 26. NY1 reported that he died of “heart disease.”

New York firefighters have been against the city’s vaccine mandate from the very beginning. Andrew Ansbro, president of the Uniformed Firefighters Association (New York Local 94), said in October that his organization would never accept the mandates.

But more recently, Uniformed Fire Officers Association (New York Local 854) President James McCarthy called for an investigation into the three recent deaths. He told the New York Daily News that there may be a possible link between the deaths and the injections.

“That’s a significant amount of people in a very short time. The vaccine is a concern with our members because it is something new that is being put into our bodies. It could be a factor.”

Mr. McCarthy demanded that the FDNY provide his organization with the vaccination status of all three men at the time of their deaths. About 2,300 New York City fire personnel called out sick on November 1 when all of them were required to have at least one shot to return to work. A total of 1,500 New York municipal workers, including 25 firefighters, were fired last week for failing to comply with the vaccine mandate.

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