Retired Fresno Fire Captain to be laid to rest, community members welcome

FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – Funeral arrangements person been finalized for a retired Fresno Fire Captain, Walt Sickler, and the assemblage is invited to articulation the service, the Fresno Fire Department said.

Officials accidental the work volition beryllium held connected Aug. 15, Thursday astatine The Well Community Church located astatine 325 Nees Ave., successful Clovis. Those who cannot be successful idiosyncratic are invited to articulation the work digitally via Zoom. The work volition statesman astatine 10 a.m.

Those attending successful idiosyncratic are asked to parkland successful the batch designated “General Parking.” Those who privation to articulation the work virtually tin usage the Zoom gathering ID: 879 7584 2951 and passcode: 081524.

Officials accidental a tiny procession of household and escorting occurrence apparatus welcomed by an Honor Guard item and uniformed firefighters volition get astatine 9:30 a.m. earlier the service. Following the service, a procession of occurrence apparatus volition escort Captain Sickler and his household to Belmont Memorial Cemetery wherever helium volition beryllium laid to rest.

Fresno Fire says Captain Sickler passed connected Aug. 6 aft battling with job-related cancer. He served the City of Fresno for implicit 27 years and retired from the Fresno Fire Department connected May 3.