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“That’s what hurts me so much, that those boys are going to miss him. They loved him so much. They loved him as much as I loved him,” said Calvin Lloyd. The pain and heartbreak is still fresh in the community of Spring Valley after a deadly fire turned as assisted living facility into ash. NBC New York s Sarah Wallace reports.
Officials said Lloyd was one of the first firefighters to arrive at the scene. He was on the third floor trying to put out the flames when he became disoriented and eventually trapped there. Lloyd was last heard from when he issued a mayday call, and did not make it out of the building as it collapsed.
Jared Lloyd will be missed. A father of two young boys, a loving son, and a hero to Rockland County, Lloyd was a man deeply invested in his community. He was laid to rest this afternoon after hundreds of first responders packed the Palisades Credit Union Park to honor their fallen comrade.
Lloyd, 35 years old, had served his community as a member of the Spring Valley Volunteer Fire Department for 16 years before he and his brother firefighters were called to the Evergreen Court Home For Adults in the early hours of Tuesday morning March 23. Lloyd and his company heroically evacuated 112 elderly and disabled residents from one of the worst fire’s the village had ever seen.
Funeral held for firefighter killed in blaze at care home
April 3, 2021
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POMONA, N.Y. (AP) A funeral was held Saturday for a volunteer firefighter killed last month while trying to rescue residents from a fire at an assisted living home in the New York City suburbs.
Family, friends, first responders and other invited guests gathered at a minor league baseball stadium in Pomona, New York, for a private ceremony honoring Spring Valley firefighter Jared Lloyd.
Bagpipers played and a massive American flag hung from ladder trucks parked at the entrance to Palisades Credit Union Park. The service was closed to the public and the media.