“The dream of his life was coming true”

The National Fire Department, the Forlì-Cesena Command with its personnel mourn Lorenzo Faccibeni and join the pain of the family and the community of Predappio, still stunned by this serious loss. “An excruciating pain for the family and those who knew him. The dream of his life was coming true, to build his own future by doing the job he loved the most, is the memory of the staff of the Viale Roma provincial command. Del Fuoco was a profession and a vocation for Lorenzo and had involved his family, in the largest of the Forlì-Cesena Fire Brigade and more widely than in the National Corps. A sector of excellence that everyone envies us, for their professionalism, preparedness and humanity, thanks to rescuers like Lorenzo. Firefighters silence the heroes. They are the custodians of citizen security and fundamental in our daily life. In Lorenzo’s eyes, their experience seems to be a wonderful combination of effort and smiles shared by those who have chosen this profession. It is the sweet ‘suffering’ of families and wives accustomed to supporting a life always in service, even when are not he is in turn. Honor and gratitude to Lorenzo’s family, whose pain we are close to, and to the families of these angels. “Colleagues remember him as” a man of high professionalism expressed in various specialized sectors. “

The Department Head, Lorenzo Facibeni, was born in Forlì on April 14, 1968, married and with three daughters, a family “that he loved very much”. His passion for the Fire Brigade began through compulsory military service as an auxiliary vigilante of course 107, from February 6, 1987 to February 4, 1988. Subsequently, he was a valid discontinuous police officer of the Command. Hired on February 15, 1992 with rescue vehicle driver status, the first assignment command was Mantua until November 30, 1993. He served the Bologna Command until January 31, 1997, and then reached 1 February 1997 in Forlì. . Promoted to Team Leader since January 2006, he carried out the task with professionalism, until the promotion to Department Head, maximum qualification of the position, which continued with the same spirit of the Corps until the last day of service, after contracting the virus, on his return. of a mission in Rome. During his career, he had wanted to follow courses for the management of special emergency vehicles up to the fourth category; He had become passionate about the specialized rescue techniques of Speleo Alpine and River and in the years 2000 and 2013 he acquired the relevant specializations, up to level 2B, essential to acquire the aircraft rescuer qualification, carried out until the last days of his service.

The helicopter rescuer, a kind of angel that descends from the VF helicopter in flight, to reach places where men and emergency vehicles cannot reach to help those who need help. Lorenzo, in addition to serving the Forlì Command, has also been in service since 2012 in alternate periods in the flight department of the Emilia Romagna Regional Fire Department, in the VF barracks at the Bologna “Guglielmo Marconi” airport, first with the specialist rating 2 / A and then 2 / B. In 2003 he had acquired the professionalism of being a driver of rescue boats at sea. In the same year, the generosity of CR Lorenzo Facibeni led him to specialize in medical first aid techniques and the use of the defibrillator, an indispensable operation to save lives. The passion for this professionalism, indispensable also for the work of helicopter rescuers, led him, through a training course, to the qualification of TPSS instructor since October 2004. In 2006, understanding the importance of communication with the rescue applicant, acquired the qualification of operating theater operator.

In 2013 he obtained the qualifications of Dos (director of fire fighting operations) and Tas (typography applied to rescue), also developing skills in forest fires and the methodology to find missing persons. In 2016, through his will, after a training course in Rome, he acquired the qualification of professional instructor. This qualification allowed him to transfer the numerous skills acquired to colleagues in local, regional and national courses. In 2019, with specific courses, he also acquired the position of chief of fire rescue operations in a confined environment. Facibeni has participated, with rescue teams, in numerous emergencies due to calamities that hit Italy, from the first Umbrian Emergency in 1996 to the Lazio-Marche-Umbria earthquake in 2016. Lorenzo received numerous merits from the Fire Department and Civil Protection, and the crossing of services, as well as numerous certificates of praise for the service performed, issued by the Command through agendas.

The memory of the command concludes: “Lorenzo, a brilliant example of the testimony of the passion for a special job, the spirit of the body and the values ​​that distinguish the Firefighter. Ours is a professionalism that improves special and fascinating qualities, such as preparation, prowess in tough tests, audacity combined with wisdom, skill combined with courage, attracts not only for them, but also for other deeper motivations, including social solidarity. The National Fire Brigade represents an excellence of ours country, deeply loved and respected by the citizens for its exceptional contribution to the security of the community and for the personal sacrifice with which it performs the heavy tasks assigned to it by law. We quietly escaped in the hope that this Corona virus is already do not victimize it among the population, among the colleagues of the Fire Brigade, the operators of medical assistance and of l to police force. “

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