Lynbrook firefighters remember their fallen

Each year in October the membership of the Lynbrook Fire Department marches to the Firefighters Memorial on Sunrise Highway at Earle Avenue to remember the lives of six Lynbrook volunteers killed in the line of duty.

The six remembered are: Lieutenant Fred Schnorr, killed on May 31, 1932; Firefighter John Smillie, killed on July 11, 1939; Chief Raymond A. Abrams killed on June 30, 1946; Firefighter William H. Koch, killed on April 30, 1963; Firefighter Peter J. Moody, on May 2, 1963; and Joseph C. Fisher, on May 3, 1963.

Firefighters Koch, Moody, and Fisher were killed when two fire trucks collided at Peninsula Boulevard and Hempstead Avenue on April 30, 1963.

The firefighters in attendance also remembered five volunteers who passed during the past year.

— Contributed by Steve Grogan