As Police Week winds down in the Virgin Islands, first responders in the St. Thomas-St. John District paid their respects to one of their own. The funeral service for Capt. Carl Fleming, Sr., who served with St. Thomas Rescue, was underway in the auditorium at the Bertha C. Boschulte Middle School on Saturday.
Fleming died April 8 at the age of 58.
As the viewing ended and the service began, uniformed EMTs, rescue responders, and firefighters marched silently past the casket. They took their seats in the back of the hall as the services began.
Outside the auditorium doors, members of the squad Fleming called his “A Team” spoke quietly among themselves. Rescue groups in service on St. Thomas, St. Croix, and St. John are volunteer organizations sometimes called community first responders…