(July 10, 2013, updated 11:10 p.m. with higher resolution photos) -- Kevin Woyjeck, the 21 year old firefighter who grew up in Seal Beach, attended Los Alamitos High School and perished in the June 30 Yarnell, AZ wildfire, was returned to the Los Alamitos Joint Forces Training Base today (July 10).
His casket, along with that of firefighter Chris MacKenzie who grew up in the Hemet area, was carried from Prescott, Arizona aboard a C-130 military aircraft. LBREPORT.com Community Correspondent Dan Halverson provided live video coverage (recorded video excerpt below) and has an incredibly powerful series of photos below. They speak for themselves. Photo by Dan Halverson Photo by Dan Halverson Photo by Dan Halverson Photo by Dan Halverson Photo by Dan Halverson Photo by Dan Halverson Photo by Dan Halverson Photo by Dan Halverson Photo by Dan Halverson Photo by Dan Halverson Video streaming by Ustream A number of Long Beach Firefighters attended today's event along with representatives of Fire Departments and Firefighter Associations across the state and beyond. Hundreds of members of the public were also present Family members were led onto the tarmac as the flag draped caskets were conveyed by white-gloved Firefighter pallbearers and bagpipes sounded Amazing Grace. A white hearse carried Firefighter MacKenzie to his final rest in a procession to the Inland Empire. A black hearse carried Firefighter Woyjeck. (LBREPORT.com was unsuccesful in efforts to confirm, and thus did not report, the route or final destination of Firefighter Woyjeck.) Firefighter Woyjeck (photo right from his Facebook page) was 21 years old. Firefighter Woyjeck moved to Prescott, AZ to serve with the elite Granite Mountain Hot Shot Crew, which is part of the City of Prescott, AZ's fire department. His Facebook page included the self-description below. For a description of the type of assignments undertaken by the Hot Shot crew, see the National Geographic story at this link. Mr. Woyjeck's father is Joe Woyjeck, a Captain with the Los Angeles County Fire Department. LBREPORT.com joins in extending our deepest condolences to the Woyjeck and MacKenzie families, their loved ones and many friends.
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