Montclair EMT Killed in Crash Laid to Rest
A funeral service was held Monday for Keith Chipepo, the ambulance worker who was killed in a multi-car collision last week in Newark. He was 29.
Ambulance workers and emergency personnel from as far away as Boston stood in silence Monday at Woody Home for Services in Orange to give a final salute to one of their own, who fell in the line of duty. “General Medical Transportation calling Unit 11,” said a voice interrupting the silence over a police scanner. “Keith Chipepo has served his last call.” More than 150 friends and family, including more than 40 emergency personnel workers, gathered yesterday afternoon to remember Chipepo, 29, of Montclair, who was killed on Nov. 19 in a multi-vehicle crash in Newark that left three others injured. When the silence broke to begin the funeral, the three dozen emergency personnel gathered around Chipepo’s coffin saluted him one more time to …
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EMT D.BROWN
11:55 pm on Tuesday, January 1, 2013
So sorry for the family and love ones that had to deal wit this. He is in heaven lookin down and over u with a smile on his face. Stay strong and blessed more ›