Saturday event: California Firefighters Memorial To Honor LA firefighters Hall and Quinones

 

 

NEWS ADVISORY – FOR PLANNING PURPOSES

Contact:  Carroll Wills; (916) 921-9111 (office); (916) 799-8148 (cell); cwills@cpf.org

 

CALIFORNIA FIREFIGHTERS MEMORIAL TO HONOR CAPTAIN HALL AND

ENGINEER QUINONES ON OCTOBER 16^TH

Annual Sacramento ceremony honors 31 of California’s bravest, including Station Fire heroes

 

Hundreds of uniformed firefighters from throughout California will gather at the State Capitol in Sacramento to pay tribute to California firefighters who made the ultimate sacrifice to keep our state safe. The California Firefighters Memorial Ceremony and Firefighter Procession will honor 31 individuals whose names will be added to the California Firefighters Memorial. The Memorial, unveiled in April 2002, honors the more than 1,100 fallen California firefighters who have lost their lives. A uniformed firefighters procession will begin at 11:15 a.m. (staging at the Capitol South Steps) and the ceremony is scheduled to begin at 11:30 a.m.

 

The annual Memorial Ceremony honors firefighters who died in the line of duty, either from injuries sustained in the line of duty or from job-related causes. Among those to be honored at the solemn gathering will be six Los Angeles County firefighters, including Fire Captain Ted Hall and Engineer Arnie Quinones, who lost their lives in the devastating 2009 Station Fire, while struggling to save over 60 people who were at the hilltop camp. Additionally Captain Philip Arreguin, Jr., Captain Carrie Henger-Neff, Engineer Tonya Burns, Los Angeles County Fire’s first African-American female firefighter, and Engineer Richard Carr’s names will all be added to the Memorial Wall.

 

WHAT:                                 CALIFORNIA FIREFIGHTERS MEMORIAL PROCESSION AND CEREMONY

 

WHEN:                                   Saturday, October 16, 2010

                                    Uniformed Procession:  11:15 a.m.

                                    Ceremony:  11:30 a.m.

                                               

WHERE:                              CA Firefighters Memorial, Capitol Park, State Capitol, Sacramento

                                               

PROGRAM:                      Lou Paulson, President, California Professional Firefighters
                                    Harold A. Schaitberger, General President, International Association of Fire Fighters
                                    Garrett Coryell, Engineer, Riverside Fire Department

Sheldon Gilbert, President, California Fire Chiefs Association

Pipes and Drums of California Professional Firefighters

 

VISUALS:                          -- Color Guards, traditional Pipe and Drum Band procession of uniformed firefighters from

                                                   Capitol South Steps to CA Firefighters Memorial in center of Capitol Park

-- Reading aloud of names of fallen firefighters; presentation of flags to families

-- Traditional “last alarm” bell ringing honoring firefighters lost in line of duty