Colleagues and fiancee mourn former Deerfield Beach firefighter

“We were going to have this beautiful spread”

It was a day of bliss, full of four-leaf clovers and promise.

Wally Broadhead, a former Deerfield Beach firefighter, surprised his girlfriend with an engagement ring in front of a cheering crowd during a St. Patrick’s Day parade last year. He and Gina Atwell planned to marry July 7 - the supposedly charmed 7-7-07.

But less than two weeks before their wedding day, his luck ran out. Broadhead suffered a massive heart

attack. A crew of Deerfield Beach paramedics, with whom he had worked for years, nursed him back to life. Read more

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