Chicago firefighters were treated to brunch at one of the city’s top restaurants on Friday – a gesture of appreciation during an especially difficult time for the department.

“God put him on this earth so he could do God’s very work. And he did it well and he lived it fully,” said the Rev. Thomas Mulcrone, former chaplain for the Chicago Fire Department, during the eulogy. “There is a time to live and a time to die. We can’t make sense today of the latter. But we can honor Dave, if we abide by the former.”