The Tuesday night ceremony will honor the late lieutenants Thomas Spencer, Timothy Jackson and James Lyons, and late firefighters Paul Brotherton, Jeremiah Lucey and Joseph McGuirk.
The last time the U.S. lost a half-dozen or more firefighters in a disaster before Dec. 3, 1999, was more than five years earlier on July 6, 1994, when 14 firefighters perished in a wildfire in the ...