Opinion: Fire and ice. And friendship.
Memphis firefighters rescue an ambulance stuck in snow and ice on Walnut Grove Road on Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2021. Dan Conaway knows the man inside the ambulance. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian)
Dan Conaway
Dan Conaway was a freelance columnist with The Daily Memphian from 2018 to 2025.
You may have seen the photo with the story about the brutal weather — firefighters pushing to free an ambulance stuck in the snow and ice. Michael Rowland was in that ambulance. Nothing brings the value of friendship into focus like a threat to a friend.
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