BLOOMINGTON, Ill. (AP) - Active and retired firefighters in central Illinois are working to locate and honor the graves of 75 firefighters.
Bob Willis and others combed Evergreen Cemetery in Bloomington on Saturday and marked the location of certain graves with a GPS device. Willis, a retired Bloomington firefighter, recently took over project started by the Bloomington-Normal Firefighter Club 25 years ago. He is working to update grave locations at several cemeteries in the area.
This is the first year the project is using GPS to get the exact location of each grave. Willis says "having GPS coordinates for current graves will make the process much easier."
Some of the graves date back to the early 1900s, while others are just a few years old.
