PORT TOWNSEND — A memorial service for fallen firefighter Andy Palmer is planned on Monday.
The service for Mr. Palmer will be at 10 a.m. in the McCurdy Pavilion at Fort Worden State Park in Port Townsend.
The 18-year-old son of Dr. Robert and Janet Palmer of Port Townsend died July 25 on his first day fighting a fire in Northern California as part of a four-member Olympic National Park crew.
“Andy was many things, but he had a beautiful mind,” said his grandmother, Ina Palmer, who lives in Sequim.
“No book was too technical or too remote for him.
“He had great understanding for things.. . .He was someone who was going places.”
A falling tree struck the recent Port Townsend High School graduate, who died while being transported to the Mercy Medical Center in Redding, Calif. on a Coast Guard helicopter.
He and fire crew members were cutting down “hazard trees” in an area already burned by the 81,000-acre Iron Complex Wildland Fire located in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest near Weaverville, Calif.
