One firefighter killed while responding to an incident on January 6 was laid to rest Wednesday with a funeral and fire department procession.
There is an empty space that 69-year-old Jim Ludlum left behind at the Mineral Point Fire Department.
“This is going to be a long process for them,” Iowa County Emergency Management Director Keith Hurlbert said. “I don’t know if we can put that into real good words for you. The outpouring support from the state of Wisconsin and other states. The emails, the phone calls, the texts messages have just been incredible.”
Dane County Fire Chiefs President Joe Pulvermacher, who is also the fire chief for the City of Fitchburg, shared that losing a member of the team is hard for a department to go through.