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Boulder Fire Rescue will host an annual departmental Achievement Awards Ceremony on Friday, Feb. 18, 2011, at 3:30 p.m. at the Public Safety Building, East Training Room, 1805 33rd St.

The ceremony will feature awards for promotion of rank for new lieutenants, 1st and 2nd class firefighters and Life Saving presentations. An Exceptional Service Award will also be given.

Fire Chief Larry Donner will welcome and introduce all recipients. Friends, family members and the media are invited to attend the event.

Eight personnel will achieve the rank of 2nd class firefighters having served for more than one year: Ryan Boersma, Jason Thomas, Joe Vogel, Manuel Garcia, Thomas Spannring, Tyler Capron, Jeremy Felix, and Matt Watson.

Three personnel, Curt Stocker, Matt Zavala and Nate Muller, will achieve the rank of 1st Class firefighters having served more than three years.

Margaret Edel and Joe Savino will be recognized for achieving the rank of Lieutenant.

Six personnel will receive awards for life-saving efforts involving CPR to resuscitate victims of medical trauma: Lt. Jeff Martinez, Engineers Mike Hankins and Frank Decoteau, John Felling and Firefighters Tim Case and Brent Wambach.

Three firefighters, Dean Vande Berg, Brian Offord and Engineer Cameron Knapp, along with two Boulder police officers, Kristen Weisbach and Brent Biekert, will be recognized for their successful life-saving efforts during a fire in 2008 at 550 South 41st St.

Heidi Tregay, Program Specialist for Fire Administration, will be thanked for her exceptional service and support of the mission of Boulder Fire Rescue during 2010.