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Firefighters honor fallen Pa. deputy chief

By Kara Rhodes and Steven M. Sweeney
GoErie.com

HARBORCREEK TOWNSHIP, Pa. — Michael D. Crotty always wanted to become a career firefighter. He achieved that goal in January, hired as a firefighter by the Erie Bureau of Fire’s Engine Co. 6.

Just four months later, on Saturday, a firetruck from Engine Co. 6 will carry Crotty’s casket from Our Lady of Mercy Catholic Church in Harborcreek Township to the cemetery for St. Gregory Catholic Church in North East.

Crotty’s family and a procession of firetrucks will follow.

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