| Editor’s note: Funeral services have been announced following the deaths of firefighters Cory Galloway and Kyle Perkins, according to FireFighterCloseCalls.com. Funeral services for Firefighter Galloway are scheduled at the First Baptist Church of Van at 1 p.m. Friday. His burial will be at the Fairway Garden of Memories Cemetery. Funeral services for FF Kyle Perkins are scheduled at Kilgore College’s Dodson Auditorium at 4 p.m. Thursday. His burial will be in Danville Cemetery. |
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KILGORE, Texas — Standing in Kilgore’s Central Fire Station, a group of firefighters bowed their heads Monday afternoon for a prayer led by a local pastor.
“Amen,” they said, quietly and mostly in unison, before dispersing through the station with somber faces. The station and the city were recovering from the sudden deaths of two firefighters during a Sunday training exercise. Kyle Perkins, 45, and Cory Galloway, 23, died after falling eight stories off the roof of Stark Hall, a Kilgore College dormitory.
The investigation of the incident is ongoing.
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