Bill Kirby Jr.: Firefighters pay belated tribute to one of their own
Charles Brocato couldn’t take his eyes off of the honorary challenge coin of achievement, and certainly not the Maltese Cross.Hard and long, he gazed at them.“Memories,” the old firefighter would say.Brocato had reminisced earlier with Ronnie Marley and Tracy Smith about the woods fire they once fought as firefighters with the old Pearce’s Mill Volunteer Fire Department. He recalled the fire covered “a lot of acres.” And there was the Baptist […]
