The parents of a Los Alamitos High School graduate and fallen firefighter were honored by the school district board for donating $40,000 in equipment to the school’s fire technology program through an organization they founded in memory of their son.
Kevin Woyjeck and 18 other Granite Mountain Hotshots were killed June 20, 2013, northwest of Phoenix in the deadliest wildland firefighting disaster since 1933. Woyjeck, who graduated in 2010 from Los Alamitos High, had joined the elite firefighting corps just three months before the tragedy.
The complete article is in the Orange County Breeze.
