Vandals are removing memorials from Brookside Cemetery.
Members of the Bridgewater Fire Service noticed that the broken ladders placed at the headstones of former fire personnel are going missing.
Bridgewater Fire Chief Michael Nauss says they would just like to have the ladders returned to where they belong.
“I’m very disappointed that something like this would have to happen. Although I don’t believe that some people really knew the significance of what the broken ladder is, and what it represents.”
Nauss says the tradition of laying a ladder on the graves goes back to the beginning of the Fire Department in the early 1800s.
“It’s a memorial, a thing that firefighters do for our deceased members that volunteered their service to the town over a 16-year period or more.”
Nauss says some of the ladders have been discovered along the Centennial Trail.
He says if anyone finds a ladder, it can be returned to the Fire Hall, Town Hall or Bridgewater Police.
If you have any information on missing Firefighters Ladders, placed at gravesides in Brookside Cemetery in tribute to deceased volunteer firefighters, we ask that you contact the Bridgewater Police Service at 902-543-2464 to share any information you may have. @policenews pic.twitter.com/w9KjvISXOD
— Town of Bridgewater (@TownBridgewater) October 22, 2018
Reported by: Ed Halverson
Twitter: @edwardhalverson
E-mail: halverson.ed@radioabl.ca
