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Glenn Bevensee

Started out as a Radio / TV Broadcasting major. Came across a car accident one night, decided to become an EMT. I scored high enough on the EMT test to qualify as a Paramedic, at some point.

I worked at Great Adventure, I was the senior full-time EMT on the night of the Haunted Castle Fire, and thanks to the iron fence, one of the only two injuries. Eight people died. Both injuries were responders.

I became a Paramedic in 1983. After a year working in Burlington County, I was hired for the new medic program in Atlantic City and the Atlantic / Cape May county area. I got married the first time in May, 1984, to a girl from Hopewell Valley HS.

In 1987, I took the test to be a police officer in Egg Harbor Townships, more on a dare than anything. Surprisingly, I did VERY well. Thanks to an officer leaving to start a business, i was hired in January, 1988.

After graduating the Police Academy, I worked BOTH jobs, medic gig was part-time.

In June, 1995, while going through a divorce, I was hit by a truck while on a car stop, and broke my back. I spent four months getting back to work, but the migraines persist to this day.

My second wife, Sandy, was diagnosed with an extremely rare form of cancer in May, 2001. Her five year survival was 5%. She died February, 2006. She almost made the 5%.

In June, 2003, when we found out there was nothing we could do for her, we went on a vacation trip to Alaska. We had a great time, tempered by knowing it was the last of it's type. By the time she died, I suspect WE knew as much about what she had as the doctors trying to treat her. Not a good feeling.

I met Beth in January, 2007. We've been together ever since. She gets my sense of humor, and what I've been through.

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