Fallen Ohio Firefighter Remembered By Family, Firefighters

July 31, 2007
About 500 people gathered to honor the life of 38-year-old John Trainer.

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Hundreds gathered Monday in Mechanicsburg to honor a fallen firefighter.

About 500 people gathered to honor the life of 38-year-old John Trainer.

About 300 of those in attendance were firefighters from the Miami Valley and some as far away as Boston and Colorado.

Trainer joined the Mechanicsburg Fire Department in December 2005.

He had just returned from a fire Tuesday night and was putting away the hoses when he fell from an engine and hit his head and died.

In addition to working as a firefighter, Trainer also worked for Honda.

Engine trucks with a flag marked the way to the cemetery where Trainer was buried.

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