A procession was held Sunday as the body of Berwick Fire Captain Joel Barnes was transferred from the Tasker Funeral Home in Dover to the Old Orchard Beach Funeral Home in Maine.
Maine Gov. Janet Mills has ordered flags lowered to half-staff to honor a firefighter killed while battling an apartment blaze.
Flags will remained lowered through sunset Sunday, the day of Berwick Fire Capt. Joel Barnes' funeral. A private mass and a public memorial ceremony will be held at Cross Insurance Arena.
The 32-year-old Barnes died and four other firefighters were injured in Berwick on Friday. He became the first firefighter to die while battling a fire in nearly four decades in Maine.
Maine Public Safety spokesman Steve McCausland said the last time a firefighter was killed in a fire was in 1980, when Portland firefighter Joseph Cavallaro Jr. died while battling a nightclub fire.
Berwick Fire Chief Dennis Plante previously said that Barnes protected a fellow firefighter from the flames and "died a hero."
