FORT LAUDERDALE – Family members, buddies, and hundreds of gentlemen and gals of the Broward Sheriff’s Business and Fire Rescue collected Friday to honor the everyday living of Battalion Main Terryson Jackson.
Jackson died final month when a sheriff’s helicopter he was in crashed into an condominium sophisticated in Pompano Beach. The crash also took the lifestyle of Lurean Wheaten, 65, who was inside an condominium in the developing, and injured 4 individuals, including two BSO crew users, the pilot Daron Roche and Firefighter Paramedic Michael Chaguaseda.
The sheriff’s business office mentioned the Fire Rescue helicopter had an motor fire and failure in a remaining motor and plummeted into the apartment building, about 50 % a mile absent from the Pompano Beach front Air Park.
A Celebration of Daily life for Jackson is becoming held at the Religion Middle in Dawn.
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At close to 8:50 a.m., a hearth truck carrying his flagged draped casket started the journey from the L.C. Poiter Funeral Residence in Pompano Seaside to The Religion Centre. The procession briefly stopped at Deerfield Seaside Station 22. It then continued to Sunrise exactly where it passed beneath a flagged draped arch at The Faith Middle manufactured of two prolonged hearth truck ladders.
Jackson’s father, Oliver, mentioned his son was a tremendous younger male, family oriented, and liked his get the job done encouraging some others.
Jackson was born in Dominica in 1973. He came to Florida in 1989.
Jackson commenced his profession with Deerfield Seaside Fire Rescue on March 22, 2004, and joined BSO as a Fire Rescue lieutenant all through the merger on Oct 1, 2011. Main Jackson joined the Air Rescue 85 group as a flight medic in 2013. On February 24, 2016, he was promoted to captain. Sheriff Gregory Tony posthumously promoted him to battalion chief.
BSO Sergeant Cleavone Brooks is Jackson’s brother. Jackson is survived by his mom, father, son, daughter, and siblings.
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