Dariel Vasquez, 18, is being remembered as a go-getter who was respectful, hard working, funny and loyal.
Monday, November 11, 2024 10:57PMMichelle Charlesworth has the details on the tragic death of 18-year-old firefighter in Greenwood Lake fire.A community is mourning the death of a parks worker killed while battling wildfire flames over the weekend.The balloons and candles, pictures and young faces made it so clear that Dariel Vasquez was just a teenager - an 18-year-old only beginning.while he was out working the fire in the Sterling Forest located in Greenwood Lake , New York.
"Overall good kid, one of the hardest workers," Chris Landry, Ramapo High School baseball coach, said. Dariel played baseball, was captain of his varsity team last year, and was voted best athlete even though he wasn't a baseball player when he started high school. He saved his money, worked at ShopRite, and was working with New York State Parks as a Parks and Rec aid, trying to make money for college."He was a really good friend," Justyn Gray said. "If you needed help, he was going to be there to back you up.
His baseball coach said he was a manager's dream -- a kid who hustled and led by example, always encouraging his teammates. "He's just a leader, he hustled on and off the field, he did everything the right way. He was always practicing his hardest, he was a kid that liked to have fun with a great laugh," Landry said.A few spoke to Eyewitness News off camera and said they were just shocked that such a terrible tragedy could happen so fast and randomly to someone with so much promise.
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