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A Regina paramedic who was awarded a medal for bravery is being remembered for his big heart and million-dollar smile.

“If you were lucky enough to meet him even once, you would never forget him,” Candace Curle said of her brother Robbie Curtis, who served as a paramedic for 18 years before his death last Wednesday.

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Curle said Curtis, 37, loved his family fiercely and was full of warmth and loyalty. She called her brother a “free-spirited adventurer” who was a pilot, skydiver and scuba diver. He also worked in Australia for about six months.

“He never needed a bucket list because everything he would have put on it, he just went out and did,” Curle said.

Curtis was the “funniest guy you’d ever meet,” who was a hero uncle to Curle’s four kids. He showed up to birthday parties in uniform and turned on the ambulance siren — that is, when he wasn’t climbing on the roof as Spiderman to entertain his nephew.