Family, friends, and firefighters from in and around the High Desert gathered Saturday for a full-service memorial to the life and career of David Spink, a decadeslong Barstow Fire engineer who became the local department’s first line-of-duty death earlier this month.
The memorial began in the early morning of Jan. 22 with an armada of first-responders, fire engines and vehicles, and bagpipe players marching the streets of Barstow.
It concluded with a sorrowful service at Barstow Community College Performing Arts Center in honor of Spink, who was critically injured in the early hours of Dec. 5 after a car hit him at highway speed as he assisted with a separate crash Interstate 15.