There, 30 volunteerfiremen tried to contain the blaze that had engulfed the company's main building, which housed the office and all of the cutting and processing machinery.
Volunteerfiremen from Quebec racing to fight a hotel blaze in upstate New York late last year were detained so long at the border that by the time they reached the scene the building had burned to the ground.
Volunteer buglers, young and old, teenagers, firemen, civilians and veterans with trumpets, tubas, trombones and bugles, all stood at attention along roads and highways waiting, honoring and remembering.