![]() ![]() The couple have twin daughters, Krista and Kelsey. She worked in the city’s tax department for many years and is now a payroll administrator, Guzzo said. Matt Sobecki and his wife, Kathy, were married for 36 years. Dennis, who served as an assistant fire chief with the same company, was 74 when he died in June 2020 and Mark, who also died from cancer at the age of 42, in 1999. Sobecki’s father, Joseph, was a captain at Engine-Truck Company No. He would schedule when they would go to the different schools and the senior citizens centers or high-rises to carry on a short seminar on fire prevention.” “It got to be so well (received) that he got other volunteer firefighters involved. “He was aggressive in fire prevention,” Saliba said. The Western Pennsylvania Firemen’s Association recognized him for fire prevention efforts. Saliba said Sobecki also went to the city’s senior high-rises and the senior citizens center. He taught fire safety programs to schoolchildren for many years, including fire prevention week activities at Martin Elementary School. Sobecki was a “great interior firefighter” and had been an emergency medical technician for many years, Saliba said.Īs a firefighter, Guzzo said Sobecki organized the city’s Christmas parades and other firefighter parades. “I will certainly miss Matt as a friend and as a pillar to our community.” He honestly wanted to always make our community better and safer. “Everything he did, he did without fanfare. He did so much for our community being a firefighter and a code officer,” Mayor Tom Guzzo said. Sobecki had worked a few years in the city’s code enforcement office. He went on to work in security at PNC Park in Pittsburgh. Saliba said Sobecki worked more than 20 years for Kmart, where he was loss prevention manager. “He’s a person that always told it the way it was and never sugarcoated anything.” He’s a very honest and true person,” Saliba said. said he knew Sobecki since the late 1970s. He most recently was an assistant chief and in charge of fire prevention.įire Chief Ed Saliba Jr. Sobecki served in many line and administrative positions at Engine-Truck Company No. The New Kensington Bureau of Fire announced Tuesday that Sobecki, 64, died from cancer at 1:25 a.m. Sobecki, a life member of the New Kensington Fire Department with nearly 50 years of service, has died. ![]()
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