HIGHSPIRE _ Firefighter friends of a Dauphin County soldier killed on June 24 by a roadside bomb in Mosul, Iraq, gave him a sendoff on the 1978 Mack pumper that he loved to ride.

Highspire Fire Department Engine 55-1 carried 25-year-old Army Pfc. James Yohn's body to Indiantown Gap National Cemetery as part of a funeral Thursday that combined solemn military rites and fire department tradition.

He is the son of Judy Yohn, of Highspire, and Robert Fisher, of Coal Township, and his wife, Julia Ann.

Four months earlier Yohn jumped on the truck with friends and headed to a fire call while on his last leave from Iraq. Yohn got married while home in February, and his wife, Amber, is expecting their first child.

At the Neill Funeral Home in Paxtang, the flag-draped casket was flanked by American and Army flags, Yohn's fire department and Army uniforms and military honors including the Bronze Star and Purple Heart. Hundreds filed by, many offering condolences to his parents. Fisher says, "When I get up in the morning, I cry."

His wife, Amber Yohn, became ill just before the funeral for her husband. She was doing fine and resting at home Friday, Mike Ondeck, president of Highspire Fire Department, said.

She was released later Thursday from Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center.

She is pregnant with the couple's first child and expected to deliver within two weeks. Amber Yohn had not had the baby as of Friday, Ondeck said.