Transcript: Profile: Aspen firefighter trucked to New Orleans

ALEX CHADWICK
NPR Special
10-03-2005
Profile: Aspen firefighter trucked to New Orleans

Host: ALEX CHADWICK
Time: 4:00-5:00 PM

ALEX CHADWICK, host:

Now another in the occasional DAY TO DAY series about some of the people who helped in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, and today, a volunteer firefighter in Aspen, Colorado: Rick Ballentine. As Aspen Public Radio's Andrea Lee reports, when he saw what was going on in the streets of New Orleans after the hurricane, Rick borrowed a truck from the Aspen Fire Department and drove south.

Mr. RICK BALLENTINE (Owner, Ballentine Collections; Volunteer Firefighter, Aspen, Colorado, Fire Department): Yeah, we just got to finish the other tiles after ...

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