Edward Aka Eddie, Ed Brown:  

During and after high school, use to hang out around the Hawaiian Inn, did a lot of surfing. I became a member of the Volusia County Beach Patrol, 1968 thru 1980, working as a lifeguard sitting every tower from New Symrna to north of the Ormond pier, worked my way to assistant captain at the Shores lifeguard station (aww, the good ole days). In 1975 I was the lifeguard at the silver beach approach and a fire broke out in the motel. I had my first chance to fight a fire and it felt pretty good. I was hit with the bug for sure. I've been in the fire service for the last 32 years, covering Daytona Beach Shores in the early days, still lifeguarding on my days off from the fire department. Looking for greener grass, worked the fire departments at Jacksonville and Tampa areas after that. During that time I graduated from the police academy in 1989, and became an arson investigator and still qualified to this day. I retired as a Fire Chief in 1998, and of course was still to young to totally retire. I came back to Daytona in 2000, and worked the beach patrol on weekends the first summer back and also working at the Holly Hill Fire Department since then. I have 7 more years til I can totally retire and collect 2 pensions....I'm looking forward to that. When the day comes, I'll see the orient, the south pacific and where ever I want to go. I've been divorced for over 10 years, so I still hit the beach, paddle around on my board, catch...Expand for more