Page 6 THE EVERETT ADVOCATE – FRiDAy, FEbRuARy 2, 2024 Retired Everett Fire Captain Gerry O’Hearn held a photo of what an electric car battery looks like last Friday afternoon in front of his Peabody home. DEVICE | FROM PAGE 1 ter per minute, once connected to a fire hydrant. O’Hearn displayed that outside of his home last Friday afternoon. While Jalbert made the device, O’Hearn designed it. “It took me about a month to design it,” O’Hearn said. “I’m working on a patent, which would initially cost about $30,000.” In addition to the pipe, O’Hearn teaches a safety course to protect firefighters. “The old can help the young,” O’Hearn said. “You have to be a team player.” According to O’Hearn, the mechanism can be assembled in three minutes due to the long distance of the pipe. He garnered the items from antique stores. JOHN MACKEY & ASSOCIATES ~ Attorneys at Law ~ * PERSONAL INJURY * REAL ESTATE * FAMILY LAW * PERSONAL BANKRUPTCY * LANDLORD/TENANT DISPUTES 14 Norwood Street Everett, MA 02149 Phone: (617) 387-4900 Fax: (617) 381-1755 WWW.JMACKEYLAW.COM Gerry O’Hearn demonstrated the water that will extinguish an electric car fire. His father, Joseph, worked for the department for 35 years. Gerry was the Captain of Engine 2 Hancock Street Station for 20 years. He came up with the idea after reading a newspaper article where firefighters weren’t well informed on how to extinguish electric vehicle fires. For information, call 617771-0632. O’Hearn displayed his helmet from his 35-year tenure alongside his father, Joseph. ~ Letter to the Editor ~ Danielle Allen announces candidacy for Democratic State Committeewoman I write to announce my candidacy for Democratic State Committeewoman for the Middlesex and Suffolk Senate District (Senator Sal DiDomenico’s district) and to ask for your vote. The seat serves Cambridge, Everett, and Chelsea. An East Cambridge resident, I am an internationally recognized expert on democracy and former gubernatorial candidate. I am honored to serve on the boards of the Cambridge Health Alliance and Massachusetts Board of Higher Education. With children in the Cambridge Public Schools, I’ve been very involved in advancing high quality curriculum in our schools. Last spring I was honored to be elected chair of my ward committee, Ward 2 for Cambridge Dems. I come from people who have loved and fought for democracy for generations. As a kid I took the value of democracy for granted. But as I came into adulthood, I saw life paths diverging for myself and my cousins, and democracy got a lot more complicated for me. I’ve lost cousins to substance use disorder, incarceration, and homicide. But democracy’s not supposed to be abstractly valuable. When we embrace the ideals of freedom and equality, it’s supposed to deliver a society that makes it possible for every generation to do a bit better than the previous one, and for whole generational cohorts to move forward together. We need to change our democracy so that democracy can deliver on its promise. This conviction has led me into work on democracy renovation. When I ran for Governor I was taken by surprise by just how many people feel disconnected from our political institutions. I think it’s time to change that. Our party, MassDems, can lead the way. I am advocating for our party to set up a MassDems Commission on Healthy Democracy to advance the values of inclusion, engagement, and healthy competition. I seek to put “democracy” back in Democrat. I would be honored to succeed the remarkable Lesley Phillips in this important work, and am proud to have the endorsements of Ward 6 Chair Linda Pinti, Representative Marjorie Decker, Representative Mike Connolly, Councillor Sumbul Siddiqui, Mayor Nicole LaChapelle, former MassDems Chair and State Treasurer, Steve Grossman, and others. To learn more, please visit allenforma.com. I ask for your vote for Democratic State Committeewoman to advance this work. Whether you vote by mail, vote early, or vote on Tuesday March 5th , please vote for Danielle Allen. Sincerely, Danielle Allen O’Hearn stands with the “Gerry Pipe.” (Advocate photos by Tara Vocino)
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