St. Louis firefighters carry the turnout gear of the late fellow St. Louis firefighter Ben Polson as they leave services from the Cathedral Basilica of Saint Louis, in St. Louis on Thursday, January 20, 2022. Polson, the first St. Louis firefighter to die in a fire in twenty years, died while battling a vacant house fire on January 13, 2022. Photo by Bill Greenblatt/UPI