Click here for the Procession video courtesy of the OVFD.
On late Monday afternoon the Orange Volunteer Fire Department gave the town’s beloved Fire Marshal Tim Smith, who passed away in the line of duty* on Sunday afternoon, a fitting show of love and respect.
Fire trucks, members of the OVFD and CERT (Community Emergency Response Team), whom he trained, lined up in front of Fire Station #2 on the Boston Post Road, which was draped with a black shroud in his memory. Tim’s turnout gear was neatly stacked up front and center.
Rescue 1, Engine 34, along with several Orange Police cruisers, Deputy Fire Marshal James Vincent, and others, accompanied Smith’s body to the Cody-White Funeral Home in Milford.
Prior to arriving in Orange, with the assistance of the OVFD and the Connecticut State Police, the body was transported by the Deputy Fire Marshal, OVFD Car 1, and Engine 34 in the motorcade from Farmington to Milford.
Along the route, the brothers and sisters from West Haven Professional Firefighters and Milford Fire Department came out to show their respects, standing on top of their fire trucks on an overpass on I-95 as the procession passed.
Calling hours will be at Cody-White Funeral Home, 107 North Broad Street, Milford from 4-8 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 24.
His funeral will take place at Holy Infant Church, 450 Racebrook Road, Orange, at 10 a.m.
*Tim’s passing was in the line of duty because he was working in his official capacity as fire marshal following a fire call in Orange.
