Like father, like daughter, like firefighter. Seattle FD welcomes dad and daughter duo

Captain Gordon Wolcott with the Seattle Fire Department knows retirement is around the corner. Before that, he had one job he did not want to miss — pinning a firefighter badge on his daughter, Raechel Ehlers.

“It’s still amazing to me, today, every time I go to work,” Wolcott said. “We work on the same shift, I know that when I come to work, she’s going to work. She just gets there earlier, because she’s newer … and throughout the day, if I go on a run, I’ll look at our status messaging board on the rig to see if she is out there on a run too,and generally, at 2 or 3 o'clock in the morning, if I’m on a run, she’s out there too. It’s almost like I have a partner in arms, and now she sees why I felt that way in the morning (growing up) and why I wasn't very nice.”