The public is invited to join the Wheeling Fire Department at the city’s Fallen Firefighter Memorial on Tuesday, Oct. 29 for its annual fallen firefighter memorial ceremony. The event begins at 11 a.m. and will take place rain or shine at the monument’s location at the corner of 14th and Water Streets downtown.

The solemn event marks the 33rd anniversary of Assistant Chief Robert Foster’s line-of-duty death. The event will include an invocation, a reading of the names of the nine fallen Wheeling firefighters, and a bell-ringing ceremony. 

Remarks will be made on firefighting-related illnesses and will highlight firefighters—both past and present—affected by firefighting-related illnesses.