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This Saturday, Brown’s birthday, in the modest, tree-lined Sterling neighborhood mistakable for thousands of others across America, the Loudoun community will unveil a 4.5-ton rock – a boulder, more precisely – at the spot Brown died in a spiraling blaze on Feb. 16, 2024.
On the boulder rests a plaque: “It doesn’t matter what bad events occur, there will always be good,” it reads. “I get stronger with each hardship I face. I learn and grow from all events, good ones and bad ones.”
Trevor Brown spoke those words to his wife, Laura, who will be in attendance Saturday for the dedication of FF Trevor Brown Memorial Park at 347 Silver Ridge Drive in the Seneca Ridge neighborhood, the site of the lives-changing home explosion caused by a leaking propane tank…