Gerry Guinta joined the Salem Fire Department in 1983 and has successfully worked his way up through the ranks, becoming a Deputy Chief in 2007. He is a member of Massachusetts Task Force 1, the Beverly, MA.-based FEMA Urban Search And Rescue team. He is also the founder and team leader of Salem Fire Department's Special Operations Unit which consists of a 34 member Technical Rescue Team (TRT).

Gerry was interviewed Wednesday by WBZ-TV reporter Peg Rusconi about his thoughts and feelings of the unprecedented rescue of the 33 miners trapped in the gold and copper mine of northern Chile.

Please visit our website at http://www.salemfire.net or click on the following link to view the video:

http://wbztv.com/local/beverly.search.team.2.1961195.html

—John Roth