Fire cadet Wilson?s funeral draws 1,000 mourners

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With hymns playing on a church organ, members of the Baltimore City Fire Department silently lined up one-by-one to salute Racheal Wilson. The fire cadet and mother of two died Feb. 9 during a training exercise.

It was a moment of reverence for Wilson during her funeral Friday at New Psalmist Baptist Church in Baltimore where friends, family and public officials gathered to honor the 29-year-old.

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