Greg Cooper Turns His Childhood Dream Into Reality  Mountain
View firefighter and paramedic enjoys being able to help people
when they need it most.  Greg Cooper recalls watching Santa
Claus hand out candy canes from the back of a fire engine when
he was a boy and thinking only about how lucky the firefighters
were to hang out with him.   Now as a paramedic/firefighter with
the for more than a decade, he realizes how lucky he is to have
his dream job.   The fire department enables Cooper, 48, to give
back to the community in numerous ways by helping people when
they are most stressed out through response calls and volunteer
work.  He remembers the first call he responded to and the
experiences that 13 years on the job have given him thus far.
Mountain View Patch: Do you live in Mountain View?  Greg Cooper:
I don’t. I live in the East Bay out in Contra Costa.  Patch: How
did you get the job with the Mountain View Fire Department?
Cooper: I was actually living in Mountain View...I had just
gotten hired at Bur