Captain – Fire Station 2
Deceased:
November 24, 2022
Appointed:
09/24/1946
Pensioned:
01/01/1977 – FS2
Services:
TBA
Donations:
IN LIEU OF FLOWERS, PLEASE SEND DONATIONS TO:
Widows, Orphans & Disabled Firefighter’s Fund
PO BOX 41903
Los Angeles, CA 90041
Tom was a long time family friend of my Mom & Dad. I use to see him when I visited my folks in San Clemente. I asked him when I first retired what he has learned from retirement. Tom told me don’t put things off. You will always find excuses why not to go some where or do something. From that day on when someone asked me to go places with them I counted in. Thanks to Tom I have gone many places since retirement.
My condolences to the Muro family.
I had the pleasure to meet Capt. Muro when I was appointed to Auto Fireman in 1975. 2’s was one of my most memorable assignments in my entire time on the job. The crew was led by Capt. Mumbles as the old timers referred to him. Of course I had know knowledge of the origin of this nickname but I soon found out not to use the term of endearment in his presence. The crew was a cast of characters but what a great time we had. I had been there a short time when and one evening we were dispatched into a greater alarm fire in 17’s district. So off went go out of quarters and being a new A/O I was excited to see a large loom-up and so I put the pedal to the metal. As we were getting closure to the fire scene, Capt. Muro kept pointing to me and shaking his finger which I assumed he wanted me to go faster, so I did. I was wrong. After we arrived on scene he looks over at me and said “why the hell were you going so fast, I was trying to get you to slow down’. I turned to him and said well Cap, I couldn’t understand a word you were saying because you were mumbling.
I learned a lot From Capt. Muro and as the years past and we would keep in touch and reminisce about some of the times we had at 2’s. Each time we would talk, he would remind me of his goal in retirement. I want to be retired longer that I was on duty.
Tom you made it