The Fort Payne community is in mourning tonight as they have lost one of their own. Darren Westbrook was a firefighter with the Dogtown Volunteer Fire Department in Fort Payne, he died from COVID on July 22. According to a post made on the Dogtown Fire Department’s Facebook page, Westbrook was in the hospital for a month battling the virus. The Fort Payne Fire Department confirmed Westbrook died sometime Thursday afternoon.