Also happening today – a tribute procession and memorial service downtown for a Seattle Fire Department Battalion Chief who worked in West Seattle for more than half of his long career with the city. Battalion Chief David H. Jacobs, Jr., was with SFD for more than a quarter century; spokesperson Dana Vander Houwen tells us he worked at West Seattle’s Station 29 (in North Admiral) from 1987 to 1997 as a Lieutenant and again from 2004 to 2008 as the Battalion Chief. In 2003, he was honored as SFD’s “Chief of the Year.” Last month, Chief Jacobs died after a battle with cancer. Prior to this afternoon’s memorial at the Lake Union Naval Reserve Center (map), a procession will follow this route, per SFD: “The Seattle Fire Department Honor Guard, Seattle Firefighters Pipes & Drums Band, fire engines and fire trucks will leave Sixth Avenue between Battery Street and Bell Street at 1:30 p.m. and head south down Sixth Avenue to Bell Street, go east on Bell Street to Ninth Avenue, then go north on Ninth Avenue to Republican Street and then East on Republican Street to Terry Avenue. The procession will finish heading north on Terry Avenue to the memorial site.”