Maumee will say goodbye to firefighter Jared Bradley this morning. Members of the Maumee Fire Division will escort Bradley to his final resting place in his hometown of Cortland, Ohio, near Youngstown, with a procession leaving Rossford at 9 a.m. The procession crosses the Fort Meigs Memorial Bridge, then travels north on Conant Street through Uptown Maumee, west on the Anthony Wayne Trail, and north onto Kingsbury Street, arriving at the Maumee Fire Station at about 9:30 a.m. A bell service ceremony follows at Fire Station 94, 220 Illinois Ave. The division invited the public to join at the station or stand along the route to pay respects.

Bradley, 21, died unexpectedly on Sunday, Nov. 8. He joined the Maumee Fire Division in March 2025 at age 21 and had previously served with the Brookfield Township Fire Division in Trumbull County. No cause of death has been released, and the City of Maumee confirmed he was not on a call at the time of his death.

Sources: 13abc and Maumee City News. See our earlier report on Bradley’s death.

Fire engine at night, photo by LoMit via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0).