Funeral Services for Fire Chief & Acadian Paramedic, Knight

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Funeral Services for Fire Chief & Acadian

Paramedic, W. Knight

Our brother was laid to rest in a very

touching ceremony, with A lone bagpiper,

Jeff Courts, an officer of the Port Arthur

Texas Police Department, played several times during Knight's ceremony.

Hundreds of firefighters, paramedics and Law Enforcement officers

said farewell to a fallen comrade Sunday. They came

from across Louisiana, Texas, even Alabama

and Virginia, to pay their last respects to W. Knight, 32, of DeRidder.

Besides the hundreds of colleagues that attended the

funeral, Knight's family, friends and concerned

citizens filled DeRidder's First Baptist Church to capacity, leaving standing

room only. The persuasion stretched over two miles with over 100 Fire,

EMS and Law Enforcement vehicles leading the flag draped Hero in

the back of the DeRidder Fire Department's 1959 American LaFrance Fire

Truck, north on Highway 171 which the community lined. An Acadian

helicopter circled above, as to his final resting place, the Providence

Cemetery, east of Rosepine, Louisiana. At the grave site, taps' played,

followed by a fly over by Acadian Ambulance AirMed 5 and the sounding of

the Last Alarm.

For those who had to protect and serve and

were unable to attend, there are photo's on the Acadian Ambulance and AirMed

Services web site. I have the link below, with links to two stories

in this mornings Lake American Press.

View Slide Show at: http://www.acadian.com/knight/default.stm

http://www.americanpress.com/News/News.htm

http://www.americanpress.com/Top%20Stories/Docs/Top1.htm

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