They came in their truckloads, men and women kitted out in the same yellow uniforms that Australian Rural Fire Service (RFS) volunteer firefighter Andrew O'Dwyer was wearing when he died. Thousands of firefighters, police, SES and ambulance personnel attended the funeral service on Tuesday for the married father at Our Lady of Victories church, just 700 metres from O'Dwyer's Horsley Park RFS brigade. Australia's Rural Fire Service Australian Rural Fire Service volunteer Andrew O'Dwyer who was killed last month. Australia's Rural Fire Service Australian firefighters Geoffrey Keaton (left) and Andrew O'Dwyer (right) were both killed in a motor vehicle accident on the Green Wattle fireground south-west of Sydney. Emergency services personnel saluted the coffin as five RFS firefighters and one of O'Dwyer's other friends carried it out of the church.

Source: Stuff January 07, 2020 07:30 UTC