LOWER MERION, Pa. - Montgomery County residents honored a firefighter who lost his life taking on a fire in Lower Merion Township Sunday night.Volunteer firefighter Sean DeMuynck, who was 35-years-old and dedicated to the Penn Wynne-Overbrook Hills Fire Company, and his wife were set to return home to family in Canada before he died in the line of duty. "You never think one of your guys is going to pay the ultimate sacrifice and so we are struggling," said Lower Merion Township Chief Fire Officer Chas McGarvey.Janelle Gan says she lives across the street from where the fire happened on Rosedale Rd.
Neighbors say the family in the house where the fire broke out was having a combined birthday and Fourth of July party. Gan adds that DeMuynck.