Goodyear firefighter's ashes set free in skydiving ceremony

  • Source: KASW-CW6 & KTVK-3TV (azfamily.com)
  • Published: 11/02/2019 10:07 PM

VIDEO: About 100 people attended a special ceremony to release Goodyear firefighter Austin Peck's ashes, two months after his death. Austin died of job-related cancer in August. He was diagnosed with cancer in his nasal cavity in 2015. "One day I was ending a visit to Austin’s hospital room. I sat down on the bed, and I leaned over his tired body, spoke into the bedsheets, hugging him for a while and saying, 'I wish there was something that I could do for you, Austin.' He had an answer. 'Just love me,'" said his father, Mark Peck, fighting back tears. "'Just love me, and take care of my wife and my kids, and take on my fight for my firefighter brothers and sisters.'"



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