Ping.
Thank you. Visiting relatives and don’t have time to post.
Post he made on his facebook page on May 7
Cyrus Reed was not his real “brother”.
He is pretty defensive here.
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Bryce A. Reed
May 7 near West, TX
So, I will say it AGAIN!!! I have not received ONE CENT for ANYTHING that I did to help with this situation. I have not been paid by the media, by press, I made nothing for delivering my brothers eulogy, and made NOTHING off of this tragedy. I was a shoulder to cry on, I found a GREAT new family, and was blessed to get to tell them about their son. THIS IS NOT ABOUT ME!!! IT IS ABOUT 12 HEROS THAT DIED TO SAVE LIVES!!!!! I am blessed to be alive. Period. I lost a lot in this and there have been INCREDIBLY kind people who are taking donations so I can get a HOME AND LIFE back, however, never would I PROFIT from anyones death. I loved and still love Cyrus A. Reed, and he loved me. I did and will do what I thought was right. Was I emotionally devistated? Hell yes I was. Have your brother die, your town explode, your crew be emotionally wrecked, and in the midst of it have your wife leave you because you are lost in your own emotions: ALL IN THE SAME WEEK, and see how you fare. People I am doing my BEST to hold myself together, but please for the love of God quit picking me apart. I have to bury yet ANOTHER friend tomorrow. God Bless”
Interesting tidbits on the case.
Daily Mail.
“On his LinkedIn profile, Reed said he spent time at the U.S. Biological and Chemical Weapon Depot in Ft McClellan, Alabama”
“Reed, who acted as the town’s spokesman in the aftermath of the blast, had a court appearance in Waco today and will remain in custody until a further hearing on Wednesday.”
“Bryce said that he and his wife Brittany Reed were listening to music at their home when they heard the town’s siren and jumped into their truck to warn people nearby.
‘Get your kids and go!’ the couple said they yelled at residents of an apartment complex near the plant.
They said they were about 50 to 75 yards from the plant when the blast rocked their car.”
“On Monday he posted that he is ‘appalled at how people are tearing me apart.’ He mentions that his wife, Brittany, left him because he was ‘lost in his own emotions’. “
Considerable difference between that story and this one.
“Reed grew up in suburban Dallas and said he had lived in West for 12 years. At the Czech Inn the weekend after the explosion, Reed’s wife, Brittany, pulled out her phone and played a video she said was taken just days before the blast of the couple’s young daughter playing with Cyrus Reed, whom her husband credited for saving his life.
Upon reaching the plant, Bryce Reed said, he saw Cyrus’ truck, so he kept on driving because he was confident the firefighter could handle the call. Minutes later, the plant erupted in flames.
When Cyrus’ body arrived at a funeral home three days later, Bryce Reed said he stayed there all night.
“I got to hug him for the last time. He got there at 9 o’clock last night and I was there until 4 in the morning, holding onto my brother,” Reed said at the time. “And telling him I’m sorry for everything that I did.”
Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/05/10/3391798/media-savvy-paramedic-facing-explosives.html#storylink=cpy
Pic of hubby and wife here.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2013/05/the_developing_story_out_of_texas.php
Another comment
““There’s no way I would have ever dreamed that this would have happened,” paramedic Bryce Reed told CNN’s “AC360°.”
“I mean, it’s profound and it’s dire, and it hurts like hell,” he said. “But, you know, the main thing we wanted to convey is that … please keep the prayers coming. Please keep the thoughts coming.”
When he responded to the scene, it left him speechless, Reed said.
“I can tell you there’s absolutely no words that I possess that can convey adequately what I saw,” he said.
“It went from my hometown and my reality and my existence to a war zone in an instant, and I haven’t even had time to process that yet.”
He lost some friends, all volunteer emergency workers, just like him.
“People who didn’t have to go to that blast, went to that blast,” he said. “People who could have stayed at home, they didn’t have to go. … they were all volunteers.””
At the big funeral, he was saying Cyrus was his brother. Yet he was no relation per Cyrus’s family. This guy’s stories vary everywhere I look.
“GOODWYN: The most moving moments of the memorial were the tributes from the families. Twenty-nine-year-old fireman Cyrus Reed died that day. In a quiet but steady voice, Bryce Reed told the story of his little brother taking cans of cheese into the backyard and shooting at them with a BB gun to instigate a spectacular display of flying whiz.
BRYCE REED: Picture, if you will, waking up, you know, in the morning to finding a 15-foot-diameter swath of compressed dairy products thrown all over the backyard, fence, chairs, windows and sometimes the dog.
(LAUGHTER)
REED: When confronted, a big grin would come across his face and he would giggle and then proceed to plead his case and say, you don’t understand; it was like 15 feet in the air and it spun and it was so cool.
(LAUGHTER)
REED: Yeah. And I’m going to miss that.
GOODWYN: To give a sense of 12 men’s lives to an arena full of mostly strangers takes a while, and the memorial lasted two and a half hours. But the gathered came away with a powerful and intimate understanding of just who and what had been lost on that terrible Wednesday evening at the fertilizer plant.
REED: In closing, I would like to say that Cyrus always hated the term hero. He and I shared the belief that heroes are persons who are etched in marble and that a hero is a sacred and solemn term reserved for only those who pay the ultimate price when others would falter or run. My brother would disagree, but I firmly believe that all privy to this incident can attest that my brother and all those who lay with him are heroes now and forever.”
http://news.wjct.org/post/mourners-pack-arena-honor-victims-texas-explosion
why was he fired a few days after the explosion?
Why did he talk to the evacuees if he was no longer ems?
What was ailing him that he was so sick
“WEST, Texas — Three days after a massive explosion at a Texas fertilizer plant, Bryce Reed climbed onto a coffee table at a local hotel where displaced families picked over donated sweatshirts and pizza. Wearing a navy blue shirt emblazoned with “West EMS,” he gathered the crowd close.
“You’re safe where you’re at,” said Reed, describing an anhydrous ammonia leak inside the rubble at the West Fertilizer Co. plant. “If you’re not, I’d be dragging you out of here myself.”
Hearty applause echoed in the lobby when Reed stepped down. But no one had asked Reed to come, and in a town swarming with federal and state investigators – who had handled all the official briefings and tightly controlled updates – a local volunteer paramedic was now talking about seeping tanks at the blast site.”
And
“In an interview outside the Czech Inn on April 21, Reed talked about being sick and facing his own mortality. He said lost 60 pounds in five months, and that doctors couldn’t pinpoint the source of his ailing stomach despite performing 26 biopsies.”