. >> reporter: hear that a lot at edgeley fire company and for good reason. nine five-year old john had no peer. >> he is on record to be the oldest active volunteer fire fighter in the you had of america. >> reporter: seen here in this video posted on you tube he kept his sense of humor, most recently a member of the fire police directing traffic at fire scenes. he was hospitalized with breathing problems after volunteering during a fire in late february on a brutally cold night. he died, on thursday. >> it is tough. it is tough on all of us. i mean he was a go to guy for everything. >> reporter: his grandson says 95 years old's dedication to fire fighting never yielded his helmet and several pictures acorn the the levittown firehouse documenting his services to saving lives. >> there was no way he would ever stop, if he stopped he would have passed years ago. >> reporter: he was captain here for 25 years. >> i represent the the township. >> reporter: that is him in the late 50's appearing in an instructional film. he is considered a founding father of fire

forecast, coming up >>> a vying for america's oldest active fire fighter, john doster was with the edgeley fire company in bucks county for 82 years. he passed last week at 95. the most recently he was a member of the fire police directing traffic and active fire scenes and at one time he was the company's fire chief. mr. doster's funeral will be tomorrow. >>> i want to get traffic and weather together in a moment but first our weather is in the the pretty, of course but nothing compared to the midwest. yesterday brought flooding wind and hail to several states including missouri and indiana. today not expected to be much better, 57 million people are at an enhanced risk for receiving large hail, look at how big that is, damaging wind and tornadoes too. worse weather is expected from chicago and detroit south through dallas imagine a good reminder we should not get too down in the dumps with some clouds. >> yes, this is springtime and violent weather, it can be beautiful. we like to get in the beautiful part but we are not in the violent part. we are in the dreary part of it. it looks like

fire fighters from a across the region gathered to honor doster with the edgeley fire company in levittown for 82 years. most recently mr. doster was a member of the fire police directing traffic at active fire scenes and at one time was the company's fire chief. he passed away last week at 95. >>> and it has been quite an interesting week of weather. we will start off with mid seven on's and sunshine and then the gray came in and it has been gray since tuesday. we now finally have a cold front moving through tonight, behind it, a lot of clear era, and that is going to come in just in time for the weekend. we have much better news on the way. lets check in here with our eyewitness weather watchers and see what they are saying tonight and looking at temperatures temperatures never got up to the 70's that warm front could not get in. cold air was tenacious. we are seeing only 50's right now. in the long term that is a good thing for us because without the the 70's and heating of the day and destabilization of the atmosphere storms could not form. fifty-seven at phil's house here in philadelp

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