On Friday 13th December 2024, Focus Comic hosted their Living Legends Art Exhibit and Awards Ceremony honoring 30 fire fighters for their service at Rural Metro Fire Station Litchfield park. The art exhibit featured 30 portraits by Award winning artist and Focus comic creator Yvonne Wan (Who has a background as a certified social cultural anthropologist). Our young Focus Comic and Real American Heroes autistic interns enjoyed showcasing their tribute art to.
We want to thank Rural metro fire station in Litchfield park for providing the venue complimentary for this special event.
Thank you Yvonne Wan for organizing this event; Luke Air Force Base for sending their honor guard and their senior reps to our event last week. We want to thank the Mayor of Litchfield Park Tom Schoaf; Rory Witt fire chief of Luke Air Force Base and Tim Soule fire chief Rural Metro fire for signing the certificates of honor for all 30 fire fighter heroes. Thank you US Air Force airman Gabe Howell for performing the national anthem. Thank you Steve Ginter for honoring our fire fighters with his photography. And thank you to all the fire fighters who gave Yvonne Wan the honor of painting and gifting them portraits for their selfless service, courage; patriotism and leadership. Thanks to all the fire fighters who serve to protect the nation. Photo Credit: Steve Ginter. Video credit: Yvonne Wan. Thanks Tony Sutton for the trophies.
Check out this video of Yvonne Wan working on one of her tribute art Honoring Tempe fire fighter Art Felix.
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The Following Fire Fighters were honored at the event: RIP Brett Couture.
| Luke Air Force Base |
| Carlos Hernandez : Engineer |
| Rory Witt: Fire station Chief |
| Corson Scherer : Fire Fighter |
| Brandon Cunningham: Fire fighter and lead fire inspector |
| Aaron E. Duggins: Installation Fire Chief |
| Rebekah Langley: Lead Fire Fighter |
| Rural Metro Fire |
| Houston Greer: Battalion Chief |
| Jason Henry: Captain |
| Tim Soule: Fire Chief |
| Morgan Keith: Fire Fighter |
| George Drum: Captain |
| Lane Klusovsky: Captain |
| Cliff Jacobs: Captain |
| Steve Tremonti: Engineer Paramedic |
| Garrett Holderman: Fire Chief |
| Charles Coleman: Fire Fighter |
| Brett Couture: Fire Fighter |
| Sun City Fire Medical |
| Jacob Willerford : Fire Fighter |
| Tempe Fire |
| Arthur Felix: Fire Fighter |
| Goodyear Fire Dept. |
| Mario Santos: Captain |
| Hugo Bedolla: Captain |
| Kevin Boyd: Captain |
| Meghan Golbach: Captain |
| Patrick Doyle: Captain |
| Oscar Navarro: Captain |
| Simeon Cheatham: Captain |
| Zack Renschler: Captain |
| Michael Gugel: Captain |
| Trevor Colter: Fire Fighter |
| Ryan Birchett: Fire Fighter and engineer |
Mediums:
Traditional Water Color paintings: 17
Digital art: 13 Paintings
Giant Canvas (Bonus) 29.5 x 39.5 inch. Acrylic Spray paints and markers.
Time spent on each painting: Approx 16-18 hours. The Large canvas piece took 4 days.
The certificates of Honor were signed by the Mayor of Litchfield Park, Fire Chief of Rural Metro Fire and Luke Air Force Base Fire Service.
Thank you Gabe Howell for performing the national anthem during the presentation of colors:
Thank you Tim Soule, Rural Metro Fire Chief for his opening speech.
Thank you Rory Witt Luke Air Force Base Fire Chief for his speech.
Congrats Tim Soule for being one of our Living Legends Award winners for 2024:
Congratulations Rory Witt for being one of our Living Legends Award winners for 2024:
ongratulations Rory Witt for being one of our Living Legends Award winners for 2024:
Thanks Shawn Gilleland for his Speech:
Congratulations to all the fire fighters that were honored at our Focus comics Living Legends event:
Merry Christmas and a happy new year.
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