Hundreds of fire fighters across West Virginia and across the nation are expected to attend this weekend’s funeral of late Roane County fire fighter Mark Horwich. Horwich died in a fire truck wreck on the way to fight a fire in the Newton community last Saturday night. Melissa Gilbert is the Roane County Emergency Manager and said his death has struck a deep blow in her tight knit community. “Mark was a fireman for two of our local fire departments so he had a lot of extended family because of that. Anytime a fireman is injured or dies in the line of duty, it touches every fireman across the state no matter which department you are with,” she said. According to Gilbert, Horwich is the first fire fighter to ever be killed in the line of duty in Roane County history. He was a member of both the Clover and Spencer-Road Volunteer Fire Departments.