Three firefighters from California who died on duty will be honored at the 36th annual National Fallen Firefighters Memorial Service at the National Fire Academy in Emmitsburg, Md., on Sunday, Oct. 8. They will be honored among other firefighters who died in previous years.
The three deceased California firefighters are Shawna L. Jones, Ryan S. Osler and Robert Oliver Reagan III. Shawna Lynn Jones was killed in February of last year by a falling rock in Malibu while serving as a volunteer inmate firefighter at Conservation Camp 13, part of a California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation program.
Jones’ name, along with Osler’s and Reagan’s, will be added to the National Fallen Firefighters Memorial on academy grounds.
The National Fallen Firefighters Foundation and the Department of Homeland Security’s U.S. Fire Administration are sponsors. For more information, visit weekend.firehero.org.