Flags are flying at half-staff across Pennsylvania in honor of a Montgomery County firefighter who was killed in the line of duty last weekend.
Firefighter Thomas Royds, with the Belmont Hills Fire Company, was struck and killed after responding to a DUI crash on Interstate 76 in Lower Merion Township this past Saturday. A Pennsylvania State Police trooper and two other firefighters were also injured after being hit while on the side of the road.
A public viewing will be held on Saturday in the Lower Merion High School auditorium from 10 a.m. until noon. Immediately following the viewing, the public is invited to participate in a recessional and final salute to Royds. Authorities say Jacquelyn Walker, 63, of Little Egg Harbor, New Jersey, was drinking behind the wheel when she struck the first responders.