Honoring the fallen firefighters

Memorial is in Ventura on Saturday


The 12th annual memorial ceremony for Ventura County fallen firefighters will begin at 10 a.m. Sat., Nov. 5 on the lawn by the firefighters memorial at the Ventura County Government Center, 800 S. Victoria Ave., Ventura.

The service is open to the public.

During the service, surviving family members will be given a folded flag to honor the fallen firefighters, and a bell will ring out as a symbol of the firefighters’ last call.

The names of Oxnard Fire Captain Scott Carroll and Ventura County Fire Engineer Ryan S. Osler have been etched into the granite and added to the other 42 names listed on the Ventura County Fallen Firefighter Memorial.

Carroll, 48, was a second-generation firefighter with more than 25 years of service. He started as a federal firefighter in Ventura and was a seasonal firefighter with the U.S. Forest Service before settling in Oxnard. He died on Nov. 30, 2015 of a brain aneurysm.

Osler, 38, died this year on Sept. 21 in a line-of-duty vehicle accident while fighting the Canyon fire in Santa Barbara County. He was a second-generation, 18-year firefighter veteran with the Ventura County Fire Department.

The memorial will honor those who died in the line of duty from traumatic injury or job-related illness.

For more information about the Ventura County Fallen Firefighter memorial, go to www.vcfd.org/Fallen-Firefighter-Memorial.



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