Los Angeles County firefighters honor beloved, lost friend Capt. Arn Tretsven – Daily News

Lina PortmanMay 30, 2024

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Lorraine Tretsven, the widow of LA County Fire Captain Arn Tretsven, has her name on the memorial wall at the department's headquarters on Wednesday, May 29, 2024. Each year, the LA County Fire Department honors firefighters who fell into the queue. of their duty by adding their names to the Memorial Wall. (Photo by David Crane, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)

Each year, the Los Angeles County Fire Department honors fallen firefighters by adding their names to the memorial wall located at department headquarters. On Wednesday, May 29, Lorraine Tretsven, the widow of Los Angeles County Fire Captain Arn Tretsven, was joined by a crowd of admirers paying tribute to her husband who died on November 15, 2022 following a medical emergency.

Several months ago, at a service to say goodbye to Tretsven, a minister told the crowd that he was “a man of many talents and skills.” One of his supervisors described important moments in Tretsven's life, from joining the Boy Scouts and becoming an Eagle Scout, to joining the U.S. Forest Service after high school where he learned to fight forest fires.

He joined the Los Angeles County Fire Department in 2007. All of Tretsven's dangerous work fighting fires and protecting people from fires was somehow secondary to his irrepressible sense of humor. When his family, friends and colleagues lined up to say goodbye to him at an official service in November 2022, Los Angeles County Fire Captain Steve Blackburn had the crowd of family members laughing , colleagues, neighbors and admirers when Blackburn told them that Tretsven was above all a man who wanted to make others laugh. Blackburn said: “If Chris Farley, John Candy and Larry the cable guy had a baby, it was Arn. He wanted to make people laugh.

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