Council Remembers Firefighters and Children Who Died in 2002 House Fire

By Sara Martino

Gloucester City Council remembered, with a moment of silence, the three firefighters and three children who lost their lives in a July Fourth house fire in 2002.

Many members of the City’s protectors — the fire, police and EMT personnel — were in attendance at last week’s Council meeting, and stood in honor of the deceased.

They were Mt. Ephraim Fire Chief James Sylvester, Deputy Chief John West, Gloucester City Firefighter Thomas Stewart III, and the three Slack girls.