WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) -- A nonprofit group unveiled the winning design for a memorial to the six Worcester firefighters who died in a warehouse blaze in 1999.
The memorial, designed by Gala Simon Associates of Watertown, will feature six columns leaning toward each other and shooting shafts of light into a common point above them.
A jury comprised of firefighters, architects and local officials picked Gala Simon's design over four other finalists chosen from a field of 158 submissions. A model of the memorial was on display Monday when officials announced the jury's selection at fire headquarters.
The seven-acre memorial will honor Worcester firefighters Paul A. Brotherton, Jeremiah M. Lucey and Joseph T. McGuirk, and Lts. Timothy P. Jackson, James F. ``Jay'' Lyons III and Thomas E. Spencer.
The memorial will be built at a cost of $3 million to $5 million on a lot beside the fire department headquarters.
A fund-raising campaign will be launched this fall. There is no date scheduled for the start of construction, said Michael J. Donoghue, president of the Worcester Fire Fighters Memorial National Design Competition.
