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Before the casket draped with an American flag was placed on the back of a Lanoka Harbor fire truck to be transported to its resting place, bagpipes sounded to Amazing Grace. An emergency scanner went off with a member of the Ocean County Sherriff s Department media center download speaking in honor of Daniel Inglis Jr.
Inglis, 25, of Lanoka Harbor a police officer with the Union City Police Department and a volunteer with the Lanoka Harbor Fire Department died on Monday, a year and six days after he suffered paralyzing injuries due to a motor vehicle accident.
Inglis was transported by fire truck to the Lanoka Harbor Fire Department where a fireman media center download s funeral service was held. He arrived with emergency sirens blasting, motorcycle engines revving and the salute of more than 75 members of police departments and emergency services from across the state.
Courage, valor, bravery, media center download duty. Those are words that we use. Those are words that we live by, Pepin said. In my 37 years as a public safety officer, I ve never seen such valor as I ve seen in the last year.
Inglis touched everyone, Lt. Nicky Lester of the Union City Police Department said. She described him as firm, kind, compassionate, proactive, loyal, fierce, determined, pigheaded, stubborn, hardworking, energetic, charismatic and determined.
When Inglis first came to the police department more than two years ago, they didn t know what to expect of the skinny, small, white boy from Lanoka Harbor, she said. Inglis was part of a pilot program as one of the first special officers hired in Union City in a long time.
We didn t know how well he d integrate but it was seamless, she said. He did very well for us If he was ever called to service, he was there whether he had to run, bike or had the luxury of being in a car, he was there.
I love you to the moon and back, Jessica Inglis said. I miss you more than I could ever have imagined media center download I would. Twenty-five years was not enough but eternity with you when we meet again is what I am going to look forward to in my lifetime ahead.
The day Laine Meelheim received media center download a call that Inglis was in a serious motor vehicle accident was the worst, she said. Meelheim was Inglis s best friend and love of his life, as described in his obituary. The duo loved each other with such magnitude, she said.
Bells chimed as Pepin shook incense on the casket and prayed for God to receive him before a procession with dozens of emergency vehicles with lights flashing would lead the way to Ocean County media center download Memorial Park where Inglis media center download would be buried.
Danny was an inspiration media center download to all of us over the last year specifically, said Bob Resetar, Lacey s emergency management coordinator and chief of Lanoka Harbor EMS. He showed you could get by adversity.
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