BRISTOL (WPVI) -- For the first time in its 70-year history, Station 14 has lost a firefighter in the line of duty.

Ed Margavich, a lifelong member of the Croydon Fire Company, died last week at the age of 80 after injuries sustained while responding to a fire.

Outside the firehouse, the flag flies at half-staff.

A memorial sits at the front steps, where members of the community have begun leaving flowers. Parked outside the bay doors is his personal car, fire-truck red.

"It's a big loss for us, it really is," said Joe Gasper, the department's public information officer.

Margavich answered his final alarm just before dawn on Friday, August 8. Around 5:30 a.m., he joined firefighters battling a van fire that spread to a nearby home in Croydon, a blaze later determined to be arson.

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