Missouri’s Fallen Firefighters
Honored this Weekend
JEFFERSON CITY, May 19, 2006-Three fallen Firefighters
will be honored during a candlelight vigil on Saturday at dusk and
with a memorial on Sunday at 10:30 a.m. at the Fire Fighters Memorial
of Missouri in Kingdom City.
This weekend’s events will honor three Firefighters
killed in the line of duty since last May including Firefighter Robert
Allen Bestgen of the Osborn Fire Protection District, Firefighter
Timmy Shane Hardy of the Neosho Fire Department and Captain Alan Leake
of the Fulton Fire Department. In addition the events will pay respect
to the more than 20 Firefighters who died of non-line of duty causes
since May 2005.
WHO: State Fire Marshal Randy Cole, Fire Fighters Memorial
Foundation of the
Fire Fighters Association of Missouri, Survivors of fallen Firefighters
WHAT: Candlelight Vigil and Memorial Service
WHEN: Candlelight Vigil on Saturday, May 20 at dusk (around 8:45 p.m.);
Memorial on Sunday, May 21 at 10:30 a.m.
WHERE: The Fire Fighters Memorial of Missouri, located at 5584 Dunn
Drive
Kingdom City (northwest of the I-70 and U.S. Hwy 54 interchange)
For more information about these events, please contact
Assistant State Fire Marshal Greg Carrell at (573) 751-2930 or visit
the Fire Fighters Memorial Foundation at http://www.ffam.org/MEMORIALFOUNDATION.htm.