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Retired Middletown firefighter Mike Deal reflects on loss, sport and community service
Summary
Mike Deal, a retired firefighter and 2023 world disabled strongman champion, told the Middletown Now podcast about a 2015 workplace accident that led to an amputation, his return to competitive Strongman, community relief trips to Leslie County, Ky., and his experience with PTSD and therapy.
Clayton Castle, communications manager for the City of Middletown and host of the Middletown Now podcast, interviewed Mike Deal, a retired firefighter, Navy veteran and retired Strongman competitor, about his recovery after a 2015 workplace accident and his work with local relief efforts and students with special needs.
Deal said the 2015 accident left him “pinned by a fire truck to the wall,” and that medical staff and he decided on an amputation so he could return to living and working. “I told myself that I was really tired. And I told myself if you go to sleep, you're gonna die.…
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