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Church bells will toll at 6:13 Sunday evening, marking the moment exactly one year ago when the first alarm was sounded for the fire in Worcester that took the lives of six city firefighters.

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The six firefighters killed at the Worcester Cold Storage and Warehouse Co. building, Lt. Thomas E. Spencer and Firefighters Paul A. Brotherton, Timothy P. Jackson, Jeremiah M. Lucey, James F. Lyons and Joseph T. McGuirk, will be remembered in a ceremony on the Dec. 3 anniversary of the fire.

The program, which will take place at the same time and location as the fire, is being organized by the Worcester Fire Department and IAFF Local 1009.

It will begin with city churches tolling their bells together at 6:13 p.m., said Capt. John Sullivan.

Frank Raffa, head of Local 1009, said all fire apparatus throughout the state are also being asked to sound their air horns at this time.

There will then be a prayer, a moment of silence, and the laying of six wreaths at the site. "The program is very short," Raffa said.

Finally, the Worcester Pipe and Drum Brigade will play, and the three apparatus that the six were assigned to - Engine 3, Ladder 2 and Rescue 1 - will make a silent pass by the site, Sullivan said.

Sullivan said attendees will probably include department personnel and their families, the families of the fallen six, members of the clergy, local political people, a contingent of firefighters from throughout the region, and a large crowd of other citizens.

The clergy present will include the Worcester Fire Department’s chaplains, Father Peter J. Scanlon and Father Jim Mazzone.

Scanlon said there will be many additional members of the clergy present. "There are going to be tons," he said.

Raffa said the Bishop of the Diocese of Worcester will also be present to say a short prayer.