Robert Dallimore remembers driving to Houston for Haley Frizzell’s rosary service. He arrived with a bouquet of roses.
“When we walked in the door her grandfather was standing there,” Dallimore said before pausing as a flood of emotion overcame him. “He hugged us like we were family … We met her mom and her dad, and I can’t explain the feeling of that. They weren’t expecting us to show up. So, once they saw us, it was instant tears.”
Days earlier, Dallimore and his fellow firefighters at the San Marcos Fire Department battled the Iconic Village apartment fire that killed Frizzell, 19, Dru Estes, 20, David Angel Ortiz, 21, Belinda Moats, 21, Dru Estes, 20, and James Phillip Miranda, 23 — while injuring seven others.
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