Hundreds of Warren residents lined Main and Water streets and the Town Common Sunday morning as the Warren Volunteer Fire and Rescue Department paid respects to its deceased members with its annual Firemen's Memorial Sunday parade and ceremony.

Following a 9 a.m. Mass for department members at St. Mary of the Bay Church, parade stepped off from fire headquarters at 11 a.m., headed north on Main and south on Water before heading up State Street to the Town Common. Warren Fire Chief James Sousa led the ceremony there, thanking Warren residents for supporting the volunteers who make the force a vital, irreplaceable part of the town. Retired Chief Al Galinelli also spoke, saying that though he's no longer the chief the department and the town will always been in his blood.

"I'll always be there for you," he said.

Department members handed out scholarships to the children of several members, and department members placed a wreath at the fire fighters' memorial on the town common.