Firefighters Honor 27-Year-Old Andrew Cross in Augusta-to-Belfast Procession After Searsmont Fire Death
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Updated · WGME · May 16
Firefighters Honor 27-Year-Old Andrew Cross in Augusta-to-Belfast Procession After Searsmont Fire Death
9 articles · Updated · WGME · May 16
An honor procession carried Morrill firefighter Andrew Cross from the state medical examiner’s office in Augusta to a Belfast funeral home on Saturday, a day after he died battling the Robbins Lumber fire in Searsmont.
At 11 a.m., a State Police honor guard led the transfer as firefighters lined the route through Waterville, South China and Morrill, with ladder trucks raised in salute outside stations.
The fire’s toll remained severe: eight patients injured in Friday’s blaze were still being treated at Maine Medical Center early Saturday afternoon, while two of the 10 initially hospitalized had been treated and transferred.
The procession underscored widening community mourning for Cross, 27, whose line-of-duty death in the lumber mill fire has drawn tributes from first responders across central Maine.
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