We wanted to let you know that there are going to be a lot of fire trucks on Bloomfield Avenue on Saturday morning.
Tomorrow is the memorial service for Merle W. Burdett, who served on the Verona Fire Department from 1948 through 2007. As part of that, a parade of fire trucks and emergency equipment–new and old–will travel through Verona from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m.
The trucks will start from Prout Funeral Home and process past both Verona fire houses, the Rescue Squad building on Church Street (Burdett also served on that squad for 45 years) and along Elmwood Road, where Burdett lived.
Burdett died on July 23 after a brief illness. He was 91. You can read his full obituary here.
