100-plus people do ‘hero workout’ on anniversary of Long Beach Capt. David Rosa’s death
By Orange County on June 25, 2020
More than 100 people gathered at the beach along Bayshore Avenue, in Long Beach, Thursday, June 25, for a grueling workout honoring fire Capt. David Rosa on the second anniversary of his death.
Rosa’s family, friends and fellow firefighters participated in the “hero workout,” which included swimming — an activity Rosa loved.
Firefighter Nick Marantz organized the inaugural hero workout with input from Rosa’s wife, Linley. Besides honoring Rosa, the workout was meant to raise money for the L.A City firefighters burned in the Skid Row explosion in May and Long Beach police officer Anton Fischer, who was killed in a traffic collision on his way to work earlier this month.
More than 100 people worked out along Bayshore to honor the two year anniversary of fallen LBFD Capt. Dave Rosa
in Long Beach on Thursday, June 25, 2020. The hero workout was designed with great meaning and required great stamina. (Photo by Brittany Murray, Press-Telegram/SCNG)
More than 100 people participated in a hero workout along Bayshore honoring the two year anniversary of fallen LBFD Capt. Dave Rosa in Long Beach on Thursday, June 25, 2020. (Photo by Brittany Murray, Press-Telegram/SCNG)
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Lynley Rosa, speaks to the people who showed up to work out along Bayshore to honor the two year anniversary of her husband, fallen LBFD Capt. Dave Rosa in Long Beach on Thursday, June 25, 2020. (Photo by Brittany Murray, Press-Telegram/SCNG)
More than 100 people worked out along Bayshore to honor the two year anniversary of fallen LBFD Capt. Dave Rosa
in Long Beach on Thursday, June 25, 2020. The hero workout was designed with great meaning and required great stamina. (Photo by Brittany Murray, Press-Telegram/SCNG)
Paige Gurich swims during a hero workout in honor of the two year anniversary of fallen LBFD Capt. Dave Rosa in Long Beach on Thursday, June 25, 2020. The hero workout was designed with great meaning and required great stamina. (Photo by Brittany Murray, Press-Telegram/SCNG)
More than 100 people worked out along Bayshore to honor the two year anniversary of fallen LBFD Capt. Dave Rosa
in Long Beach on Thursday, June 25, 2020. The hero workout was designed with great meaning and required great stamina. (Photo by Brittany Murray, Press-Telegram/SCNG)
Firefighter Lester Fuzell, dives into the water during a hero workout in honor of the two year anniversary of fallen LBFD Capt. Dave Rosa in Long Beach on Thursday, June 25, 2020. The hero workout was designed with great meaning and required great stamina. (Photo by Brittany Murray, Press-Telegram/SCNG)
Firefighter Nick Marantz, speaks to the crowd that showed up for the hero workout honoring the two year anniversary of fallen LBFD Capt. Dave Rosa in Long Beach on Thursday, June 25, 2020. The hero workout was designed with great meaning and required great stamina. (Photo by Brittany Murray, Press-Telegram/SCNG)
“My goal was to sell T-shirts and raise some money,” Marantz, “but I was happily surprised at the large turnout.”
Rosa, a San Juan Capistrano resident, worked for the Long Beach Fire Department for 17 years. But on June 25, 2018, he and other firefighters responded to an explosion at high-rise retirement home, where the captain was gunned down by a 77-year-old resident of the facility. Two other people were injured and the 77-year-old man was charged with murder, in an attack that authorities said initially had targeted the suspect’s neighbor.
Thursday’s event was scheduled for 9 a.m., but firefighters who had to report for their shifts were at the beach three hours early. By the official start time, more than 100 people had done the workout and more were just starting.
The workout consisted of 17 rounds, timed. Participants did six burpees — where you go from standing, to a squat, to a plank and then reverse it — swam 25 meters, and did 18 walking lunges. That added up to Rosa’s time with the Fire Department and the date he was killed.
“It’s a tough day,” Linley Rosa said, “but I am super humbled and honored to see all of these people who came out.”
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