City Of Franklin: Franklin Fire Inspector Ryan Naylor To Become The City Of Franklin's Occupational Health & Safety Trainer

Press release from the City of Franklin:

02/17/2022 7:00 PM

Franklin—After 19 years with the Franklin Fire Department, Fire Inspector Ryan Naylor has accepted a new role with the city.

Naylor, who served as a firefighter for 16 years, and fire inspector for three, will assume the position of Occupational Health and Safety Trainer with the City of Franklin’s Risk Management Division in the HR Department next week.

A native of Long Island, NY, Naylor followed in the footsteps of his grandfather, who was Fire Chief of the Copiague, NY Fire Department.  He said, “They did a big Christmas party every year at the fire station, and we would go.  We’d get to see Santa, and my grandfather would take us to climb on the trucks in the bay.” 

• Unit Citation for Valorous Conduct (2009) for extrication of a patient from a heavy equipment entrapment at a construction site.
• Meritorious Service Award (2018) for rapidly extricating and saving the life of a patient who sustained life-threatening injuries in a head-on motor vehicle collision. 
• Two Phoenix Awards for saving the life of a patient in cardiac arrest (2010 and 2019).
• Outside Agency Commendation (TN EMS Star of Life, Region 5, 2019).
• Appreciation Award (2016) for accepting a voluntary reassignment to work in dispatch for 10 months during a critical shortage of emergency telecommunicators.

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