These are photographs from the funeral and burial of Rocky Mount Fire Chief and Vice Mayor Posey Dillon.

These are photographs from the funeral and burial of Rocky Mount Firefighter Danny Altice.

Hundreds of mourners and firefighters from throughout Virginia and other states attended the funerals of Rocky Mount Fire Chief Posey Dillon and fireman Danny Altice as the lives of two fallen firefighters were celebrated and eulogized in separate funeral ceremonies Friday.

Dillon and Altice, who died together last Monday in the violent crash of their fire truck en route to a house fire, were remembered and praised for their service to the community in solemn, deeply moving and emotional funeral services.

More than 500 firefighters from across Virginia and other states were among about 1,500 mourners at Dillon's funeral at Franklin Heights Baptist Church.

Hundreds of family members, firefighters, friends, state and local officials, Rocky Mount and Franklin County residents and others are expected to pay their last respects today to Posey Dillon and William "Danny" Altice, who were killed in a traffic accident Monday.

Funerals and burials will be held today for Dillon and Altice, longtime Rocky Mount volunteer firefighters who died when their fire truck rolled over several times in the accident.

Town officials have made plans to accommodate large crowds that are expected for the funerals for the two fallen firefighters.

Donnie Davis of Shively Electric ties red ribbon around one of the street lamps near the intersection of Tanyard Road in Rocky Mount.

Rocky Mount Town Manager James Ervin said that he thinks town officials may discuss the installation of traffic pre-emptive devices that could change traffic lights to give emergency vehicles the right of way through intersections.

"It is fairly expensive. You would have to put the devices on the lights at every intersection," Ervin said.

The cost could approach several thousand dollars at each intersection, he said.

"But it is something that we could discuss," Ervin said, in the aftermath of the accident in which Fire Chief Posey Dillon and firefighter William "Danny" Altice died Monday.

Dillon and Altice were killed on their way to a house fire when their fire engine was struck by an SUV at the intersection of Old Franklin Turnpike and School Board Road.

For more than seven years, U.S. Marine veteran Wayne Hodges of Rocky Mount and other veterans have been working to keep the memory alive of the 241 Marines who died in Beirut, Lebanon, in 1983 from a terrorist bombing attack.

The Beirut Veterans Stamp Initiative, which has been trying to get the U.S. Postal Service to approve a commemorative stamp for several years, has moved forward without the approval of the Postal Service.

Hodges, who survived the terrorist attack, said fellow Marine veteran Bill Kibler of Washington, D.C, who also served in Beirut, discovered that a stamp design approved by the Department of Defense for postage could be sold to the public through a third party vendor.