Captain Merrill Bone was a 35-year veteran in the Unified and Salt Lake City Fire Services.
(Unified Fire Authority) Captain Merrill Bone, who served 35 years with the Unified Fire Authority and the Salt Lake City Fire Department, died on October 31, 2021 as a result of COVID-19.
A captain for the Salt Lake County’s Unified Fire Authority has died as a result of COVID-19, the UFA reported.
Captain Merrill Bone died on Sunday evening, the department reported on its social media. Bone’s death is recognized as business-related. He was 61 years old and had been hospitalized at Intermountain Medical Center in Murray for the past two weeks, a UFA spokesman said.
Bone joined the Unified Fire Department in August 2006 as a medic. In 2013 he was promoted to captain, stationed at Station 111A in Magna, reported the UFA.
Before joining UFA, Bone spent 20 years with the Salt Lake City Fire Department as a firefighter and paramedic.
At both agencies, he was a member of the Heavy Rescue Program and an active member of Urban Search and Rescue Utah Task Force 1 (UT-TF1), a unit that can act in emergency situations across the country. Bone’s operations with UT-TF1 included New York City after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
“Merrill’s legacy will live on in the lives of those he has helped in his 35 years of service,” read the UFA Post.
UFA firefighters formed a procession Sunday evening to escort Bones’ body from the Intermountain Medical Center to a local morgue. A bagpiper was playing when two people brought a stretcher containing Bones’ body wrapped in an American flag to a waiting hearse.
Details on the memorial services will be announced this week, the department said.
(Unified Fire Authority) Fire fighters from the Unified Fire Authority of Salt Lake County gathered at Intermountain Medical Center in Murray, Utah on October 31, 2021 to escort the body of Captain Merrill Bone to a local morgue. Bone died as a result of COVID-19, and the department recognizes his death as official.
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