By Calen McKinney
The Central Kentucky News-Journal
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Surrounded by friends and family, Tony Grider took his last breath Saturday afternoon. Grider’s death comes about a month after he and three other Campbellsville Fire & Rescue firefighters were injured while helping with an ALS ice bucket challenge on the Campbellsville University campus.
Grider, 41, a captain who lived in Columbia, died Saturday at about noon, and his body was to be transported from the University of Louisville burn center to a funeral home in Columbia.
Firefighters and other law enforcement personnel will line I-65 from Louisville to Columbia as Grider’s body is brought to the funeral home. The caravan will leave Louisville at about 4 p.m.
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