Key Points: • Fant will lie in state from 1-2 p.m. before the service, to be held at Braves stadium Sept. 18. • He is the first DeKalb firefighter to be killed in the line of duty. • Fant spent all 21 years of his career at Fire Station #24 on Redan Road.

Services for DeKalb County Master Firefighter Preston Fant, who was killed in the line of duty on Sept. 8, will be held at the Braves Stadium at Truist Park on Thursday, Sept. 18 starting at 2 p.m.

While battling a warehouse fire on a movie production company’s property on South Stone Mountain Lithonia Road, Fant was reportedly “overcome by fire conditions” and had to be rescued by other firefighters. He was rushed to Grady Memorial Hospital where he later died.

Fant is the first DeKalb County firefighter to have died in the line of du

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