HALIFAX, Pa. (WHTM) -- Firefighters from across the area came together Friday to pay last respects to a chief who lived life fighting fires and serving his community.

David Warfel died last week at a wildland fire training academy in Cumberland County.

A longtime firefighter in the Halifax and Powells Valley area, he was most recently chief at the Carsonville Fire Company in upper Dauphin County. His company remembered him as “always a cheerful, musical, funny guy."

He was also Forest District Maintenance Supervisor at the Weiser State Forest, working for the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources in the Bureau of Forestry.

The Bureau of Forestry, which houses DCNR's wildland firefighting outfit, came out in force to remember one of their own as dozens of their w

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