Four new firefighters were sworn at at Lockport Fire Department on Tuesday. At the same time, the department honored four retiring firefighters who gave a combined 75 years of service to the city.
The new hires — Peter Burke, Nicholas Kaszuba, John Messer and Corey Webster — are coming on board under a SAFER grant and will supplant the four firefighters who started with LFD a year ago and are now moving onto the regular employees' roster.
The new hires were selected by the Board of Fire Commissioners from a pool of 14 candidates.
Burke, 28, is a city resident and is the father of two children, Lucas and Alivia. He spent the past nine years working for American Medical Response as an emergency medical provider, at the paramedic level for the past six years.