Paige Van Vorst and Steve Skaar went to the scene of the fire that day. He was 33, the father of three and the first Minneapolis firefighter in 17 years killed in the line of duty. One of the first firefighters up the ladder to get a hose to the upper floors, he fell into the rubble as the warehouse annex collapsed on him. Birkeli had been on duty since midnight and was scheduled to finish his shift 30 minutes before the first alarm sounded at 7:32 a.m. Built in 1890 as the Corn Exchange Building, the seven-story building was expanded and converted to fry and bag chips in the 1950s.Īll 24 employees escaped the massive fire, which spread quickly through the building's wooden beams amid fears that 8,000 gallons of corn and peanut oil could ignite in the basement. 24, 1965, Birkeli was among 150 firefighters responding to a five-alarm fire at the Old Dutch potato chip plant in downtown Minneapolis. Birkeli helped rescue five babies from the fifth-floor nursery, and a photo in the next day's Minneapolis Star - showing Birkeli cradling one of the saved infants - added light to a dark Christmas Eve. 23, 1956, eight people were killed, including a baby with a heart defect in an incubator. When a Christmas tree went up in flames in the lobby of Doctors Memorial Hospital near Loring Park in the early morning hours of Dec. Two fires would define Birkeli's nine years with the Minneapolis Fire Department. "It was a fluke he went along on a whim and passed." "He went to the Dunwoody Institute to be a baker, but one day his buddies stopped by to say they were going to take the Fire Department exam," said June Holin, 57, Birkeli's daughter who lives in Richfield. The son of a Norwegian immigrant baker, he figured he'd follow in his father's flour-dusted footsteps. Charlie Birkeli returned to Minneapolis in 1953 from the front lines of the Korean War. You might just find a new hobby that's even nerdier.Army Cpl. and if you're still salty that this headline wasn't about the games: Expand your horizon a little bit and have a read. If you love God of War, you should be hyped, because it brings back Kratos. If you love comics, you should be hyped as this one brings together writer Chris Roberson and Eisner-nominated artist Tony Parker. The comic will literally pick up from the trail of blood that was left at the end of God of War III. The comic series will span 4 issues and Fallen God #1 will be released on March 10, 2021. But a war against oneself is unwinnable, and only invites madness. Kratos rages against the one foe that has proven to be unconquerable-himself. Believing himself to be finally free of his bondage, he sets sail for the desert in an attempt to distance himself from his home and his shame only to find his rage and guilt follow close behind. Warning, spoilers for the old-school God of War trilogy ahead: God of War: Fallen God follows Kratos after conquering Zeus and thwarting Athena. READ MORE: God of War for PS5: New Free Update Makes the Game Even More Beautiful!.If you want to know how the angry-murdering-beardless Kratos became the slightly-less-angry-murdering-full-beard Kratos, then you will have to read these comics! BUT: Many of us are huge comic book fans and for us this news is hype! The God of War lore lends itself to more than just gaming and now we finally got a release date for the latest God of War comic series: Fallen God. if you clicked on here, looking for a new God of War game – we're sorry. The comic series is called 'Fallen God' and now we finally got a release date. (Credit: Dark Horse)ĭark Horse is working on a God of War comic that bridges the gap between the original God of War trilogy and the 2018 reboot. We just wanna know how the monkey plays into all of this.
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