FALL RIVER — A light drizzle fell as an honor guard from the Fall River Fire Department marched through Kennedy Park to a monument at the corner of Middle and South Main streets honoring their fallen brothers.
The Fall River Permanent Firemen's Benefit Association organized the annual tribute on Sunday, held at the department’s memorial bell monument.
On a stone pillar behind the bell are etched the names of 22 men who died while serving the department — what Fire Chief Jeffrey Bacon called a silent memorial that nevertheless speaks volumes.
“The lessons learned from many of the names on this memorial are clearly recognizable," said Bacon to a small crowd of local officials, firefighters and family members gathered at the scene. “The circumstances of their deaths involve obvious dangers that we’ve since etched into our collective memory as reminders that our job can be tragically unpredictable.”
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