Kenneth Krulish
St. Johns County Fire Rescue
St. Augustine, Florida
Kenneth Krulish, Captain of the St. Johns County Fire Department in St. Augustine, Florida died January 22, 2013, at the age of 49.
Kenneth was a husband and father to two children. Kenneth was a founding member of the St. Johns County Fire Rescue and served as the department Training Captain. He joined the county’s EMS agency in the 1990’s and has been involved ever since, including helping lead the merger of the fire and EMS into a unified system. Krulish organized training initiatives for new recruits and helped grow the department from a few dozen to nearly 300.
Captain Krulish finished an exhausting and stressful 24-hour shift on January 21, 2013. On January 22, while training as an avid runner for a 15k road race, Kenneth collapsed and died.
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