Worcester Firefighter Passed Away After Long Service Career: Report

WORCESTER, MA - Mark Stomski, a Worcester firefighter who retired in 2008 after suffering an injury in the line of duty, died on Saturday, Jan. 11, according to the Telegram & Gazette.

In 2006 at the McKeon Road fire station, a parked fire truck's brakes let go and the truck rolled backward. It slammed into Stomski's chest, and following a diagnosis of secondary pulmonary hypertension he retired. His fellow firefighters started the Mark Stomski Fund to help raise money to assist with the medical care costs.

Read the full story at the Telegram & Gazette.