For more than 20 years, on the first Saturday in June, firefighters and EMS personnel who have died in the line of duty or have been recognized by the Virginia Line of Duty Act in the previous year, are honored at a memorial service.
Battalion Chief Earl Dyer of the Richmond Department of Fire and Emergency Services is being remembered as a “consummate professional and a man of the highest integrity” following his death after experiencing a medical emergency at work.
Richmond Public Schools officials said Monday that a custodial manager in charge of security at William Fox Elementary School was asleep Friday night an hour before the school was aflame,