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Daniel Matlick

Sep 24, 2026

8:58
And when this thing got its start, what was the idea? Who came up with the concept behind doing something like this?
9:09
It's actually a great story.
9:13
You know, it starts with the Tucson Fire Department and Tucson firefighters, quite frankly, and Tucson has a rich history.
9:20
The fire service, you know, is full of tradition and history.
9:25
And one of the things that Tucson Fire had that was very rare was they had, in addition to their professional career fire department, They had a group of retired firefighters that also formed a sustaining group to get together and help each other.
9:50
And one of those members of that group of the Tucson retired firefighters was a man named Frank Tamayo.
10:00
He basically came up with the original idea and thought, wouldn't it be great to develop a truck for firefighter funerals? And as Gary alluded to, the tradition in the fire service has been, if there was a line of duty death, that you would take that firefighter's truck that they were assigned to out of service, And you would use that for the funeral procession.

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Why don't we take this time, if you guys could just take a moment and think about... one last story

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