EAST GREENWICH – Funeral director David Ucci Jr. "was in shock" when he saw fire consuming Hill-Skeffington Funeral Home early Sunday morning, but he knew he had to go inside the burning building. The four bodies inside were his responsibility, and he had to move them to safety.

David Ucci remembers waking up early Sunday morning to a devastating phone call from the East Greenwich Police Department.

A funeral director was called a hero after a fire tore through Hill-Skeffington Funeral Home in East Greenwich in the early morning of Feb. 2. “I had never seen anything like that in person before, it was incredible,