LOUDOUN COUNTY, Va. ( DC News Now ) — This Veterans Day, the Tunnel to Towers Foundation announced that it delivered 40 mortgage-free homes to Gold Star and fallen first responder families, including to the family of Virginia volunteer firefighter Trevor Brown.
Brown, 45, was a member of the Sterling Volunteer Fire Company. He died while responding to a gas leak that prompted an explosion at a home in the 300 block of Silver Ridge Drive on Feb. 16. The leak involved a 500-gallon underground propane tank that had been uncontained.
The explosion seriously injured 11 other first responders, injured two others and left around $2.5 million in damages.
As a result of the explosion, officials said on Oct. 22 that Roger Bentley, a former employee of Southern States Cooperative, Inc. – Leesburg – Fairfax Petroleum Service’s (Souther States) faced charges .
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The Tunnel to Towers Foundation pays off the mortgages of law enforcement officers and firefighters who die in the line of duty, such as Brown, through the Fallen First Responder Home Program.