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Physically Challenged Firefighter Returns To Duty

WCBE 90.5FM | By Jim Letizia
Published February 26, 2013 at 7:27 AM EST

A Central Ohio firefighter is the state's first amputee to return to his job.Lieutenant Anthony Torres returned to work with the Mifflin Township Fire Department yesterday, less than a year after losing his leg in a motorcycle crash. Torres passed all of the physical tests that he took while wearing a prosthetic leg.

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Jim has been with WCBE since 1996. Before that he worked as a reporter at another Columbus radio station, and for three newspapers in Southwest Florida.
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