A drain cleaner who’s also a full-time firefighter is probably about as common as a sewer lateral without tree roots inside.
But this unusual career pairing works just fine for Dwayne Mitchell, owner of Premier Drain and Sewer Cleaning in Memphis, Tennessee. Mitchell has been a firefighter — a fire truck driver, to be exact — at the Memphis Fire Department since 2004. And he’s been working in the plumbing and drain cleaning industry for even longer than that.Mitchell says he wanted to be a firefighter ever since he attended a career day in elementary school. The father of one of
