DAN BRICKEY SUCCUMBS
Tue, 2008-09-23 12:29
Dan Brickey, longtime NHRA director of emergency medical services, passed away this morning after a lengthy illness. He was 
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During Brickey's 17-year tenure with NHRA he was charged with ensuring the safety of competitors and fans who attended NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series events. While working closely with the NHRA Safety Safari on driver rescue, Brickey coordinated all aspects of facility safety, as well as all ambulance, fire and other outside emergency services agencies for each event. Dan Brickey, longtime NHRA director of emergency medical services, passed away this morning after a lengthy illness. He was58.
During Brickey's 17-year tenure with NHRA he was charged with ensuring the safety of competitors and fans who attended NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series events. While working closely with the NHRA Safety Safari on driver rescue, Brickey coordinated all aspects of facility safety, as well as all ambulance, fire and other outside emergency services agencies for each event.
"Dan was both a friend and a dedicated professional who helped advance the emergency services program with the Safety Safari and did an outstanding job during his time at NHRA," said Graham Light, senior vice president of racing operations, NHRA. "He will be missed. On behalf of the entire NHRA community, our thoughts and prayers go out to his family and friends."
Brickey joined NHRA full-time in 1991. Prior to that he worked as a member of the safety team at the Indianapolis 500 for 10 years and spent 13 years in occupational medicine at Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis. In 1979, Brickey became the part-time medical director at O'Reilly Raceway Park at Indianapolis. A Navy corpsman during the Vietnam War, he trained as a physician's assistant from 1972 to 1974 at the Cleveland Clinic and earned his degree. He went to work in his homestate of Indiana for five years in a family practice, performing most of the duties of a full medical doctor.
Brickey was a charter member of the International Council of Motorsports Science and a committee member in the National Fire Prevention Association. In the 1990s he was responsible for training NHRA's division safety teams to help them fashion their local operations in the manner of the famed NHRA Safety Safari.
His memorial services will be announced as they become available.
58.During Brickey's 17-year tenure with NHRA he was charged with ensuring the safety of competitors and fans who attended NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series events. While working closely with the NHRA Safety Safari on driver rescue, Brickey coordinated all aspects of facility safety, as well as all ambulance, fire and other outside emergency services agencies for each event. Dan Brickey, longtime NHRA director of emergency medical services, passed away this morning after a lengthy illness. He was
58.During Brickey's 17-year tenure with NHRA he was charged with ensuring the safety of competitors and fans who attended NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series events. While working closely with the NHRA Safety Safari on driver rescue, Brickey coordinated all aspects of facility safety, as well as all ambulance, fire and other outside emergency services agencies for each event.
"Dan was both a friend and a dedicated professional who helped advance the emergency services program with the Safety Safari and did an outstanding job during his time at NHRA," said Graham Light, senior vice president of racing operations, NHRA. "He will be missed. On behalf of the entire NHRA community, our thoughts and prayers go out to his family and friends."
Brickey joined NHRA full-time in 1991. Prior to that he worked as a member of the safety team at the Indianapolis 500 for 10 years and spent 13 years in occupational medicine at Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis. In 1979, Brickey became the part-time medical director at O'Reilly Raceway Park at Indianapolis. A Navy corpsman during the Vietnam War, he trained as a physician's assistant from 1972 to 1974 at the Cleveland Clinic and earned his degree. He went to work in his homestate of Indiana for five years in a family practice, performing most of the duties of a full medical doctor.
Brickey was a charter member of the International Council of Motorsports Science and a committee member in the National Fire Prevention Association. In the 1990s he was responsible for training NHRA's division safety teams to help them fashion their local operations in the manner of the famed NHRA Safety Safari.
His memorial services will be announced as they become available.
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