A firefighter who died in 2011 during a house fire was honored Sunday with a fundraiser in Los Angeles.
"Fallen Firefighters," the 5th annual event celebrated the life of Glenn L. Allen, who died when a roof collapsed on him.
Jack and Stephanie McGee organize the event in honor of the firefighter who helped Stephanie from a fall.
"Stephanie and I were hiking up at Fryman. She slid on the gravel, broke her left hip, and her left wrist," Jack McGee said."The firemen come up to put her in the ambulance to take her away, and to take care of her. Four days later I went up to buy them a meal at the firehouse and I found out that the guy who put her in the ambulance, Glenn Allen, was killed in a Hollywood Hills fire five years ago."
During the event people shared memories of Allen, a 38-year veteran of the Los Angeles Fire Department. Firefighters from all over the county paid their respects to him.
Money raised by the event will be used to put his grandson through school.
