More than 50 firefighters from Hartford stood beside the Worcester, MA Fire Department during a funeral procession on Monday.
The funeral was for Lt. Jason Menard who died while responding to a 4-alarm fire last week.
It wasn't the first time one of Hartford's firefighters was there for the Worcester department.
In Dec. 2011, Arturo Rosa was a rookie in Hartford.
"Within 3 months of actually becoming a fireman in 2011, Worcester had a very unfortunate event happen," Rosa told Channel 3.
Jon Davies, a career firefighter in Worcester, died when a three-story building partially collapsed.
Hartford firefighters journeyed north to pay their respects.
Rosa called it a reality check of what he signed up for.
"You start to think of the risks or the things that you do to try to help others sometimes put you in harm’s way," he said.