BROCKTON — Jason Gould, a veteran and fourth-generation Brockton firefighter, was just 46 years old when he died on Sept. 8 from injuries he sustained while rescuing a woman from an apartment fire about a decade earlier.
Retired firefighter Mark Picher said he and Gould were bringing a woman down from one of the upper floors of the Hamilton Oaks apartments during a fire when Gould’s mask was knocked off.
“When his mask became dislodged from his face, he took in a pretty good amount of smoke. But he never let her go. He kept pushing through to get her out of there and got her to the outside,” Picher said. “If it wasn’t for him, I couldn’t have moved her by myself.”…