Noel Bugnet News Today

The daughter of a fallen firefighter has helped raise funds to restore a monument that was vandalized twice last year.

Plaques at a monument helping memorialize Edmontons fallen firefighters were stolen for the second time this year.

Five more bronze plaques have been stolen from the Edmonton Firefighters Memorial Plaza in Old Strathcona after the site was previously vandalized in July.

Article content Bugnet said the memorial has been vandalized before but “nothing quite like this.” In 2015, The Rescue statue was found defaced with a black marker and a chokecherry tree was cut down beside it. Bugnet said it will cost thousands of dollars to replace the plaques and they will not be able to put new plaques on the memorial in time for the society’s annual ceremony held on Sept. 11 that honours fallen members of the Edmonton Fire Rescue Service and the 343 firefighters kill...

Article content Bugnet said the memorial has been vandalized before but “nothing quite like this.” In 2015, The Rescue statue was found defaced with a black marker and a chokecherry tree was cut down beside it. Bugnet said it will cost thousands of dollars to replace the plaques and they will not be able to put new plaques on the memorial in time for the society’s annual ceremony held on Sept. 11 that honours fallen members of the Edmonton Fire Rescue Service and the 343 firefighters kill...