LOWER MERION, Pa. - A Montgomery County firefighter who lost his life battling a house fire that broke out at a Fourth of July celebration will be laid to rest this weekend in Lower Merion Township.
Sean DeMuynck, a 35-year-old member of the Penn Wynne-Overbrook Hills Fire Company, climbed to the third floor of a burning home on Rosedale Road just after 10:30 p.m.
Sunday. Lower Merion Cheif Fire Officer Chaz McGarvey said DeMuynck was with two other firefighters when a mayday call went out around 11 p.m.
DeMuynck was unable to escape the home, according to McGarvey.A procession was held Wednesday to honor DeMuynck's service. Fire trucks and first responders lined the route as a police escort lead DeMuynck's body to a local funeral.