Friend: Stringer will be remembered for ‘valor’
BY CHERYL V. JACKSON Staff Reporter December 23, 2010 2:21AM
Fire Lt. Edward Stringer
Updated: December 23, 2010 7:05AM
On his days off, Chicago Firefighter Edward Stringer would head for the Lakepoint Club campground in Wilmington. “He was here usually when he was off from work,” said campground manager Monica Murdaugh. “He loved it down here.” He’d often help other campers at the site. Members there gave him the nickname “Diego.” “He was a good guy,” Murdaugh said after a day of fielding calls from friends about his death. “I’m in shock. Everybody’s in shock.” Stringer had two adult children, including a daughter who would often visit her father at the campground. Fellow firefighters Wednesday remembered Stringer, 47, as spot-on in following instructions. “February 2, 1998, was when he came in,” said firefighter Richard Rosado, a media affairs officer who was an instructor when Stringer trained. “I’d tell him to do something and he always did it,” he said. “He was very respectful.” But it wasn’t always serious business with Stringer, Rosado said. The man enjoyed a joke. A Fire Department district commander, who didn’t want to be identified, said outside the county morgue that Stringer will be remembered for his “bravery’’ and “valor.’’ He said he knows Stringer’s mother, a retired city worker. “We lost a friend, we lost a brother,’’ he said.
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