Somber family members, fellow emergency responders and thankful citizens gathered at the state capital Saturday to pay tribute to those firefighters who have fallen in the line of duty.
During the memorial ceremony, a total of 29 names, including seven with Bay Area ties, were etched into the California Firefighters Memorial, which remembers the men and women who have died while serving the community.
John G. Murphy, Clyde M. Watarai, David Amituanai, Richard B. Faust and Lauifi Seumaala from the San Francisco Fire Department were among those honored in addition to James Martin from the Fremont Fire Department and Robert Alan Lee from Cal Fire.
The names of roughly 1,300 firefighters are forever inscribed in the state memorial.
