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Tuesday, August 12, 2003
Site backed for memorial to fire heroes
Hoover recommends 7 acres owned by city on Grove St.
Nick Kotsopoulos
TELEGRAM & GAZETTE STAFF
WORCESTER- City Manager Thomas R. Hoover is recommending that nearly 7 acres of city-owned land next to Fire Department headquarters on Grove Street be used for a memorial to the six firefighters who died battling the Worcester Cold Storage and Warehouse Co. building fire in December 1999.
The site, which borders Salisbury Pond across from Institute Park, was selected by the Worcester Fire Fighters Memorial Committee Inc.
Mr. Hoover has asked the City Council to give the committee permission to have a memorial built on that land. He has also asked the council to authorize him to execute a trust agreement in which the Worcester Fire Fighters Memorial Park would be turned over to the city when the memorial is completed.
The council will take up those requests tonight. They are expected to be referred to the council's Public Safety Committee, where a full presentation of the project will be made.
Mr. Hoover said the memorial committee has worked with Fire Chief Gerard A. Dio to develop a plan for the memorial that also complements the needs of the Fire Department.
The six firefighters who died were: Lieutenants James F. "Jay" Lyons III, Thomas E. Spencer and Timothy P. Jackson, and Firefighters Paul A. Brotherton, Jeremiah M. Lucey and Joseph T. McGuirk.
Michael J. Donoghue, chairman of the Worcester Fire Fighters Memorial Committee, said that besides selecting a site for the memorial, the committee also has:
Voted to adopt a two-stage, open national design competition to determine the design for the memorial. Mr. Donoghue said proposals will be sought this year from professionals throughout the United States. A jury of nationally known designers and local community representatives will choose the winning design from among finalists, he said.
Set as guidelines that the memorial include a monument to the six firefighters, a bridge connecting the memorial site to Institute Park across Salisbury Pond, a chronology of the fire and its aftermath, and tributes to others who fought the fire and to other Worcester firefighters who died in the line of duty.
Formally name the memorial site "Worcester Fire Fighters Memorial Park 5-1438, Dec. 3, 1999." Mr. Donoghue said the numbers 5-1438 stand for the five alarms called for that fire, and the Fire Department code for the location of the former Worcester Cold Storage and Warehouse Co. building.
Mr. Donoghue said that once the committee receives approval from the city to use the site, it will be able to move forward with the design competition and with a public campaign to pay for the memorial.
"Once the memorial is completed, the committee will donate Worcester Fire Fighters Memorial Park to the city of Worcester as a permanent tribute to its six fallen heroes," Mr. Donoghue said.
The Worcester Fire Fighters Memorial Committee was formed in late 2001. Its members include two relatives of the fallen firefighters, four members of the Fire Department and five other representatives of Worcester's civic, business and arts communities.
Link for more info Worcester Memorial
http://www.fallenbrothers.com/commun...ead.php?t=3642
Tuesday, August 12, 2003
Site backed for memorial to fire heroes
Hoover recommends 7 acres owned by city on Grove St.
Nick Kotsopoulos
TELEGRAM & GAZETTE STAFF
WORCESTER- City Manager Thomas R. Hoover is recommending that nearly 7 acres of city-owned land next to Fire Department headquarters on Grove Street be used for a memorial to the six firefighters who died battling the Worcester Cold Storage and Warehouse Co. building fire in December 1999.
The site, which borders Salisbury Pond across from Institute Park, was selected by the Worcester Fire Fighters Memorial Committee Inc.
Mr. Hoover has asked the City Council to give the committee permission to have a memorial built on that land. He has also asked the council to authorize him to execute a trust agreement in which the Worcester Fire Fighters Memorial Park would be turned over to the city when the memorial is completed.
The council will take up those requests tonight. They are expected to be referred to the council's Public Safety Committee, where a full presentation of the project will be made.
Mr. Hoover said the memorial committee has worked with Fire Chief Gerard A. Dio to develop a plan for the memorial that also complements the needs of the Fire Department.
The six firefighters who died were: Lieutenants James F. "Jay" Lyons III, Thomas E. Spencer and Timothy P. Jackson, and Firefighters Paul A. Brotherton, Jeremiah M. Lucey and Joseph T. McGuirk.
Michael J. Donoghue, chairman of the Worcester Fire Fighters Memorial Committee, said that besides selecting a site for the memorial, the committee also has:
Voted to adopt a two-stage, open national design competition to determine the design for the memorial. Mr. Donoghue said proposals will be sought this year from professionals throughout the United States. A jury of nationally known designers and local community representatives will choose the winning design from among finalists, he said.
Set as guidelines that the memorial include a monument to the six firefighters, a bridge connecting the memorial site to Institute Park across Salisbury Pond, a chronology of the fire and its aftermath, and tributes to others who fought the fire and to other Worcester firefighters who died in the line of duty.
Formally name the memorial site "Worcester Fire Fighters Memorial Park 5-1438, Dec. 3, 1999." Mr. Donoghue said the numbers 5-1438 stand for the five alarms called for that fire, and the Fire Department code for the location of the former Worcester Cold Storage and Warehouse Co. building.
Mr. Donoghue said that once the committee receives approval from the city to use the site, it will be able to move forward with the design competition and with a public campaign to pay for the memorial.
"Once the memorial is completed, the committee will donate Worcester Fire Fighters Memorial Park to the city of Worcester as a permanent tribute to its six fallen heroes," Mr. Donoghue said.
The Worcester Fire Fighters Memorial Committee was formed in late 2001. Its members include two relatives of the fallen firefighters, four members of the Fire Department and five other representatives of Worcester's civic, business and arts communities.
Link for more info Worcester Memorial
http://www.fallenbrothers.com/commun...ead.php?t=3642
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