Saturday Spotlight: Dep. Joseph Brancato

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EDITOR’S NOTE The following is the 10th in a series of profiles that manninglive.com will be posting each Saturday to highlight our first responders and dispatchers who keep Clarendon County a safe place to live. After each Saturday posting, the piece will appear in the following Thursday’s Manning Times. Joseph Brancato always wanted to help people. It's one of the reasons he became a sheriff's deputy. "To help and serve people in the community is why I wanted to be a first responder," he said. A 2011 graduate of East Clarendon High School, Brancato attended Central Carolina Technical College. He initially joined the Sumter County Sheriff's Office and is now a deputy with the Clarendon County Sheriff's Office. He said one of his most memorable moments in his career was being asked by Clarendon County Sheriff Tim Baxley to come work in his home county. He also said one of the most challenging things about being a first responder is "not being able to help everyone." "You want to help everyone, but sometimes you can't," he said. "You're just one person."