Crime & Safety

Motorcade to Carry Ed Walsh from Boston to Watertown

Walsh was killed fighting a nine-alarm blaze in Back Bay Wednesday.

A motorcade will carry the body of fallen Boston Fire Lt. Ed Walsh from the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner to a Watertown funeral home Friday night.

At 6 p.m., the motorcade will travel up Albany Street to the Massachusetts Turnpike, according to the Boston Fire Department. It will then head west to the Watertown exit, into Watertown Square, and end at the Staton Funeral Home.

Follow live updates of the motorcade in the Twitter stream above

Walsh and firefighter Michael Kennedy were killed in a nine-alarm blaze in Back Bay Wednesday.

Funerals for both men will be held next week.

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