the lord and savior. this is not a sad time, but a glad time. i don t have to say much, because everyone that has spoken, they ve hit it, as we now say south on the head. but i would say that we had some good times. she accepted me as a brother, although i was her bodyguard for almost 11 years. i remember with sparkle everyone that left, and i wanted to go home bad. and she said, ray when she say ray, she called me uncle ray, that s her playful time but when she means business, she would say ray. i m tired. i ve done everything i m supposed to do. i just want to hang back a little bit and just rest. i said, okay. all right. but the thing about it is when we got ready to leave, she says, i don t believe i want to fly. i said, well, how are we going to get there? she says, we re going to drive. i said, well, we re going to drive? not we. i said, you don t drive. she said i m going to help you drive. i said, i m not going to trust you to drive me. so, she said, we can do i
responding to a call. jummy olabanji is live in alexandria with more. good morning. good morning. it is certainly going to be a very emotional two days off for nearly 300 firefighters and emt a who worked with joshua weissman in the alexandria fire department emt s. off seminary road, his truck. other localities will be filling in for them so they can attend a memorial service. the 33-year-old paramedic died when he fell off 395 while responding to a call. he suffered a severe head injury and later died at washington hospital center. is visitation will be this evening, the clock p.m. through midnight in alexandria. this funeral will be tomorrow afternoon. city schools in alexandria are letting out early tomorrow. city officials are warning of massive traffic thursday afternoon near seminary road related to the funeral procession. the funeral is expected to bring more than 200 fire vehicles and more than 2000 people to the city of alexandria. other neighboring jurisdiction