Hundreds Crowd Hall in Support of Kangas

    Jan. 23, 2004
    A hearing Thursday to help decide if federal honors were due a fallen 14-year-old member of a fire company attracted so much attention, hundreds had to watch on a big screen from another section of the firehouse where the hearing went on.
    BROOKHAVEN -- A hearing Thursday to help decide if federal honors were due a fallen 14-year-old member of a fire company attracted so much attention, hundreds had to watch on a big screen from another section of the firehouse where the hearing went on.

    The U.S. Department of Justice declined in 2002 to add the name of the boy, Chris Kangas, to the National Fallen Firefighters

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