BALTIMORE - Gov. Martin O'Malley was among an estimated 3,000 who attended a funeral for a Baltimore County firefighter who died while fighting an apartment blaze last week.
A Mass was conducted Monday at Cathedral of Mary Our Queen for 43-year-old Mark Falkenhan.
The volunteer firefighter from Lutherville became trapped while searching for residents inside a third-story apartment during the four-alarm fire Wednesday night.
Falkenhan was a longtime Baltimore County firefighter and paramedic who retired from the department in 2006 but continued to fight fires in a volunteer capacity. He worked for the Secret Service.
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