Fifteen fire trucks representing nearly every municipality and volunteer fire department in Pearl River County showed up outside the window of Jim Dischinger.
Dischinger has been an active member of the firefighter community in Pearl River County for many years. However, now Dischinger is fighting a new fight. Dischinger recently battled COVID-19, winning after a two-week stint in the hospital.
“He was a normal functioning 70-something-year-old who was on our fire board with the Southeast Volunteer Fire Department, he was on Carriere Fire Board and he was also on the Center Water Association Board. Full of life, totally normal functioning individual and got sick and progressed rapidly to, you know, being in a nursing home basically and bedridden,” said Southeast Volunteer Fire Department Chief Tony Scharenbroch.