[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 36 (Thursday, March 10, 2011)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E449]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




             HONORING ALAMEDA FIRE CAPTAIN SCOTT CARNEVALE

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                          HON. LYNN C. WOOLSEY

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                        Thursday, March 10, 2011

  Ms. WOOLSEY. Mr. Speaker, I rise today with my colleague, 
Representative Fortney Pete Stark, to honor the memory of a man who 
gave his life serving the people of the San Francisco Bay Area. Alameda 
Fire Captain Scott Carnevale, a resident of Mill Valley, California, 
died at the age of 42 on January 3, 2011, of occupational cancer.
  Cpt. Carnevale was a proud Mill Valley native. He attended Mill 
Valley Middle School and Tamalpais High School, and it was at Tam High 
that he first met his future wife, Elizabeth. Mill Valley is also where 
Cpt. Carnevale took an early interest in firefighting, volunteering 
with the Mill Valley Fire Department in 1992. Cpt. Carnevale then 
attended the fire academy in Santa Rosa and graduated the following 
year.
  Early in his career, Cpt. Carnevale served as a seasonal firefighter 
in Marin and worked for the Tamalpais Fire District before finally 
joining the Alameda Air Station as a full-time firefighter. When the 
airbase closed in 1997, Cpt. Carnevale was hired by the city of 
Alameda, where he was promoted to Apparatus Operator in 2001 and 
Captain of Station Two in 2007.
  Cpt. Carnevale was also dedicated to his fellow firefighters. He 
served as an Executive Board Trustee and Shift Vice President for the 
International Association of Fire Fighters Local 689. He was also an 
active member of the Fire Labor Management Team, and he organized 
Alameda Fire Department's participation in the California Professional 
Firefighters Exposure Reporting Program.
  Cpt. Carnevale had many outside passions and skills, including 
craftsmanship and the outdoors. He helped design and build his family's 
home in Mill Valley. He also helped to restore the fire department's 
two antique fire rigs, and he took it on himself to repaint the 
insignia at the front door of Station Three. Even a diagnosis of cancer 
could not slow him down, as he continued to enjoy spending time with 
his family, traveling, and kayaking.
  Cpt. Carnevale is survived by his wife Elizabeth Carnevale and his 
eight-year-old son.
  Mister Speaker, it is with a profound sense of loss that we ask you 
to join us in honoring the life of Cpt. Scott Carnevale. Family and 
friends remember Cpt. Carnevale as an adventurer who was loved and 
respected for his integrity, selflessness, and dependability. The 
people of the Bay Area remember him as a true hero.

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