VIDEO: A Clay County firefighter was among the 226 that were honored in the National Fallen Firefighters Memorial Weekend in Maryland. Jeremy McKay, a Clay County Fire Rescue engineer, died from cancer in 2019.
Jasen Hernandez and Ronnie Hutchison are with Local 3362 Clay County Professional Firefighters Union and knew McKay well.
“He was always a steady, steady worker, and not a negative bone in his body,” Hutchison said.
Hernandez and Hutchison received a flag for McKay on behalf of his family. “It is sad. We have to come out here and honor our fellow brother and do the right thing for him,” Hernandez said.
McKay died from stomach cancer in November 2019 after being diagnosed just a little more than a year earlier. He was 45 years old.
But what he did during that battle is changing lives right now.