Again. Yet again.
My hometown has had entirely too many Line of Duty Deaths since I started in EMS, that being more than zero. For a city the size of Worcester there has been entirely too much heartache.
December 3, 1999:
Lt Tom Spencer, FF Paul Brotherton, LT Timothy Jackson, FF Jeremiah Lucey, Lt Jay Lyons, FF Joseph McGuirk
December 8, 2011:
FF Jon Davies
December 5, 2016:
Paramedic John Lynch
December 9, 2018:
FF Christopher Roy
November 18, 2019:
Lt Jason Menard
June 4, 2021:
Officer Enmanuel "Manny" Familia
All of these men died while they tried to help their community. Manny died today while trying to rescue a drowning teen from a city pond; that teenager also perished.
It is often said that Worcester is a big small town. The city will once again prove that as it rallies around its police department.