Middle TN volunteer first responder hanging up his badge at 73 years old [Video]

NOLENSVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — Tennessee isn’t known as the Volunteer State for nothing. It’s a statewide sense of pride that serves as a calling for many, including Nick Wolkonsky, who became a volunteer first responder late into life.

Now 73 years old, Wolkonsky worked in Corporate America for most of his life. He was a senior national account manager for a big security firm. Then, around the time he turned 60, Wolkonsky retired from the rat race and did what so many Tennesseans do: volunteer.

“It wasn’t so much a career change. I had a career, but I wanted to really do something to give back to the community, and I really felt the community has been good to me,” Wolkonsky said. “I had a good life, a good home, a good family, and I wanted to do something more productive.”

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