Fallen Firefighters Memorial, Bronze sculpture group in Pioneer Square, Seattle, United States
The Fallen Firefighters Memorial is a bronze sculpture group by Hai Ying Wu in Occidental Park, Seattle, near Occidental Avenue and Main Street. Four firefighters in helmets and bulky turnout gear stand or kneel around a long hose and nozzle, beside a large angular bronze form of intersecting flat slabs on a low rectangular pad.
The bronze group by Hai Ying Wu was inspired by four Seattle firefighters who died on January 5, 1995, while fighting a fire in the Mary Pang warehouse in the International District. It stands in Occidental Park, near Occidental Avenue and Main Street.
The bronze group by Hai Ying Wu stands in Occidental Park, near Occidental Avenue and Main Street, and recalls the four Seattle firefighters who died on January 5, 1995, in the Mary Pang warehouse fire in the International District. Visitors can pick out the figures in helmets and turnout gear, one gripping a hose, another crouching with a nozzle, beside the angular slab form.
The sculpture group stands on the brick paving of Occidental Park, near Occidental Avenue and Main Street, so it is seen on foot rather than entered. The bronze figures and the angular slab form sit at ground level on a low pad, with no barrier between them and the walkway. Fallen leaves collect around the base in autumn.
The group is the work of Seattle sculptor Hai Ying Wu, who cast four firefighters in bronze around an angular slab form. It stands near Occidental Avenue and Main Street, a short walk from the Mary Pang warehouse site in the International District where the four died on January 5, 1995.
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