Man of Fire and Ice

Whether fighting walls of fire or racing downhill on ice, Brandon Lucore, 45, is a man who excels at both ends of the temperature spectrum. Lucore, a battalion chief for North County Fire and 1983 graduate of Fallbrook High School, recently returned from Mammoth Mountain where he medaled in two events at the California Fire & Police Winter Olympics held March 7 through 10. The annual event draws active duty and retired police officers and firefighters from all over the United States.

“Brandon took the Gold medal in the Super Giant Slalom and the Silver in the Slalom,” said John Buchanan, publi...