{"id":494351,"date":"2026-10-13T05:32:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T05:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/494351\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T05:32:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T05:32:11","slug":"lafd-honors-supreme-sacrifice-at-annual-fallen-firefighters-memorial-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/494351\/","title":{"rendered":"LAFD Honors Supreme Sacrifice at Annual Fallen Firefighters Memorial Service"},"content":{"rendered":"

HOLLYWOOD, CA – Beneath a clear blue sky, the\u00a0Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD), alongside the\u00a0LAFD Historical Society, the\u00a0L.A. Firemen’s Relief Association, and the\u00a0Widows, Orphans & Disabled Firefighter’s Fund, gathered on Saturday, October 10, 2026, for the annual\u00a0Fallen Firefighters Memorial Service. The solemn event took place at the\u00a0Los Angeles Fire Department Museum and Memorial<\/a>, located at historic\u00a0Hollywood Fire Station 27<\/a> on Cahuenga Boulevard.<\/p>\n

The ceremony paid tribute to the\u00a0280 brave members of the department who have made the ultimate sacrifice in service to the people of Los Angeles since the department’s inception. Family members, friends, surviving spouses, and both active and retired fire service personnel stood shoulder-to-shoulder to ensure that the legacies of these fallen heroes are never forgotten.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The event was led by\u00a0LAFD Chief Jaime Moore, alongside LAFD Chaplains Daniel Nakamura, Kevin Smith, and George Negrete. Retired LAFD Captain and Historical Society President Jim Finn served as the keynote speaker, guiding those in attendance in a unified recitation of the inscription engraved on the memorial’s granite wall:\u00a0“Courageously they died, by inspiration they live.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

The service included deeply moving traditions, highlighted by the\u00a0solemn toll of the ten bells, signaling a firefighter’s final return to quarters. Attendees gathered around the dramatic plaza monument, which features a granite wall bearing the names of the fallen. In front of the wall stands a series of bronze statues designed by LAFD Fire Captain Duane Golden, depicting a fire company in action and a fallen member being tended to by a colleague.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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“By standing together, we honor those we have lost and show their families that this Department will never forget them,” the LAFD shared in a statement following the event. The annual gathering remains a cornerstone of the department’s identity, providing comfort and enduring community support to the extended LAFD family.<\/p>\n

For more historical information or to support the families of the fallen, please visit the\u00a0LAFD Historical Society<\/a> and the\u00a0L.A. Firemen’s Relief Association<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOLLYWOOD, CA – Beneath a clear blue sky, the\u00a0Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD), alongside the\u00a0LAFD Historical Society, the\u00a0L.A.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":494352,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[48,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":["post-494351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=494351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/494352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}