Thursday marks three years since the ambush that killed two West Webster firefighters who responded to a fire on Lake Road. Firefighters & family gathered this morning behind the fire hall at a monument dedicated to the men who died.
On Christmas Eve 2012, authorities said William Spengler set a fire as a trap to lure firefighters to his home, and then shot at them, killing Lieutenant Mike Chiapperini and Tomasz Kaczowka.
Two other firefighters and a police officer were injured in the ambush. Spengler also killed his sister.
Chiapperini’s mother, Marsha, talked to Time Warner Cable News about just how horrific that day was.
“It was a shock, it was terrible, I can’t think of anything worse, really, because I lost my husband 20 years ago, but this was a different kind of death, it was very, very hard.”
A number of people came out to West Webster this morning to put out flags and flowers at the memorial for the firefighters.
