State Honors Firefighters For Response To Marathon Bombing
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Firefighters from 18 Massachusetts communities have been honored for their service by Gov. Deval Patrick and other state officials.
The annual firefighter of the year awards were held Thursday at Kresge Auditorium at MIT.
Among those honored were both on- and off-duty firefighters from the Boston, Beverly, Brockton, Cambridge, Lynn, Salem, Stoughton and Massport fire departments who responded to the Boston Marathon bombings in April and helped in the aftermath.
The fire marshal's award was presented to the Boston, Cambridge and Watertown fire departments and 24 individual firefighters, many of them marathon volunteers, spectators or participants.
State Fire Marshal Stephen D. Coan says the firefighters who responded instinctively used their training to save lives.
Sixteen other awards were also presented.
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