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Boston firefighters sifting through the ashes of a burned-out building found the wedding ring of Lt. Edward Walsh, a colleague who died there last week, and then rushed to Walsh's wake to present it to his widow.
Four of us had sifters, and we just got scoops," Patty Donovan, one of the firefighters, told WCVB-TV. "You just go through it slowly, scoop after scoop, with your hands."
Walsh, 43, and another firefighter, 33-year-old Michael Kennedy, died while battling the nine-alarm blaze on Beacon Street. Officials say they were trapped in the basement as the wind-fueled fire ripped through the brownstone in Boston's Back Bay.
Donovan said firefighters had already searched the firehouse for Walsh's wedding band and were back at the scene when they discovered the ring among the charred debris. The group then scrambled to get to Walsh's wake at St. Patrick Parish in Watertown, Mass., where mourners had already gathered.
https://news.yahoo.com/boston-firefighter-ring-154336878.html
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The nephew of Lt. Edward Walsh waved to firefighters lining a Watertown street before the funeral.
Firefighters were reflected in the windows of a bus during the procession.
Thousands of firefighters lined a Watertown street for the funeral of Boston Fire Lt. Edward J. Walsh.
The casket made its way to the church atop a fire engine.
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