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Colleagues remember medic killed by fire vehicle

Steciak had just been promoted to captain in November and first joined the volunteer ranks at the age of 14; he was remembered as someone who helped and protected people

Baltimore Sun

BEL AIR, Md. — Erik Steciak was patient, enthusiastic and wanted to help people, according to some of the people who knew him best.

“He liked helping people, protecting them,” his mother, Jennifer Steciak, said Thursday afternoon, where she spoke about her son surrounded by his friends and colleagues.

The 29-year-old from Columbia was a paid paramedic with the Bel Air Volunteer Fire Company who was killed in the line of duty Tuesday afternoon in an accident just down the street from the Patterson Mill Station where he worked since it opened in 2012. He had been with Bel Air since December 2009.

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