"The risk we run with not having additional funding now, permanent funding, is the further we get away from this tragedy, the less likely people will be sympathetic to the need," Brosi said.
"Less than a year ago he was on full duty riding on a fire truck and within a 12-month period he was buried," Brosi said. "A young person: early 50s, active, healthy, vibrant ... and in less than 12 months was taken. That's the part you won't see in a statistic."
"These are significant ailments. People are suffering and they're not visible in the data," Brosi said.
"I counted up the blank spaces on that wall and that wall can hold 960 names. At the rate we're going, someday, we will reach that, we believe," Ansbro said.
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