Giving your best

Putting out fires in the community

Each month kimt news three and our giving your best partner diamond jo casino á recognize someone who goes above and beyond to give back to their community.

Kimt news three's raquel hellman joins us now to introduce us to our march volunteer of the month á raquel á who are we honoring this month?xxx katie and george á this month we're honoring a man who has spent nearly two decades making sure his community is safe.

Take a look.xxx haddie and hallie hanson look up to their dad.

"he's been on the fire department for years and he's just helping the community out and, yeah.

He's took a bunch of time from his life and from a bunch of stuff from his job to help people out.

That's why mitch hanson is our march giving your best volunteer of the month.

"on behalf of kimt and our giving your best partner, diamond jo casino and first citizens bank, we would like to recognize you as our march volunteer of the month.

Thank you."

"very surprised."

Mitch has spent eighteen years on the northwood volunteer fire company.

Right now á he is fire chief.

Mitch and the rest of the crew are always ready to answer a call for help.

"somebody put a bug in my ear about seventeená eighteen years ago to get on the fire department.

I wasn't sure if i really wanted to do it.

Went on my first ems call and knew that's what i wanted to do.

I like helping people out.

Seeing the community support us and continuing to and continuing to give back to them as they support us."

Mitch is an inspiration to his friends and family á especially his girls.

"i'm proud of him.

Proud."/// we'd like to say big congratulatio ns to mitch.

And a thank you to his daughters hallie and haddie because they actually nominated him.

George and katie á i think it's so cool that at such a young age á the girls are able to recognize what a big impact their dad has on the community./// thank you raquel.

And if you know someone who goes above and beyond to give back to their community á we want to hear from you.

To nominate someone for volunteer of the month á just go to kimt dot com and click on the community tab.///