This video contains highlights from the dedication ceremony in which the Orland Fire Protection District donated a fire truck to Moraine Valley Community College in honor of Daniel Capuano who died after battling a warehouse fire on the far south side on Dec. 14, 2015.

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Excerpts from the ChicagoTribune.com:

A fire engine taken out of service by the Orland Fire Protection District has been donated to the Moraine Valley Community College in memory of Chicago Firefighter Daniel Capuano, who died in December.

“He’s going to be their guardian angel as they train,” Orland Fire Protection District Chief Michael Schofield said at a ceremony at the Palos Hills school on Wednesday.

Capuano, a 15-year veteran of the Chicago Fire Department took several courses at Moraine over the years, his daughter Amanda said. With the donation of the engine students, “will remember what a hero he was for years to come,” she told a crowd that included area firefighters and school officials.

She and her mother, Julie, Capuano’s parents Mike and Jacqui, brother Patrick and his children, daughter Delilah and son Bodhi, stood by the truck as a firefighter color guard walked past them at the end of the ceremony.

Capuano also worked for more than 16 years as a part-time firefighter in Evergreen Park, and “a lot of our guys in Orland worked with Dan in Evergreen Park,” Schofield said.

Andrew Hufnagl, coordinator of fire science and emergency medical services at Moraine, said the school and the Orland district have a long standing working relationship, and that six current or former firefighters and officers with the district are instructors at Moraine. He told Capuano’s family, “We promise you we will use his name and try to make him proud every day.”

Orland had been using the engine since 1999, and it was formally retired about nine months ago, when the district got a new piece of engine. Noting that district residents attend Moraine, Schofield said the donation made perfect sense.

“If we can keep the taxpayers’ money in the area and help Moraine Valley, it helps everybody,” he said.

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