Firefighter Christopher Roy died on Dec. 9, 2018, while battling a five-alarm blaze in a multifamily home, a fire that was determined to be intentionally set.
Kim Ring
Telegram & Gazette
WORCESTER When firefighter Christopher Roy s family was consulted about the memorial that was being built outside the Webster Square Fire Station, they thought it was perfect but they wanted to add just one thing. They had asked us if we wanted to do anything to (the memorial), Roy s mother, Michele Roy, said. And I immediately said, Yes, I d like the word perseverance. Because that s what Chris life was, he persevered.
Wednesday night, with a few frosty snowflakes falling, firefighters held a brief memorial, replaying the original dispatch to the Lowell Street fire where Roy died and standing for a moment in silence. Roy s family joined them outside the fire station where Roy worked on Ladder 4.