Emergency workers from all over Wisconsin come together on Tuesday to honor the three people killed in a helicopter crash in La Crosse County.

Surgeon Darren Bean, nurse Mark Coyne, and pilot Steve Lipperer were all honored with a procession.

Police and firefighters came together to celebrate the lives and mourn the passing of three fellow EMS workers who died in a helicopter crash on Saturday.

"We made a joint effort that this is something we want to do. This is just one of the ways we thought we could pay respect to the people from Madison," says Tim Candahl, the La Crosse County Deputy Medical Examiner.

The three hearses, followed by rescuers made their way to Madison. Candahl says everyone who died in the chopper crash is considered family. He says this ceremony shows just how important the three were to everyone in the EMS community.

"Fire departments, police departments, and hospitals... we consider ourselves family and we feel the sorrow and the grief that people in Madison do."

Jim Keiken is a Madison assistant fire chief and says he's grateful to area emergency workers for all their help.

"The fire service is tradition bound and fire and EMS would normally pay their respects when a comrade has died in the line of duty."

He says the EMS workers on board the medical helicopter were well respected and will always be remembered.

"It's hard. You do it a day at a time and a period at a time and we cry a lot and we hug each other a lot."

Keiken says it's important for EMS workers across the state to say goodbye to their fallen comrades.

"Everybody was 100% for this and we're very glad to be part of this ceremony today," says Candahl.

The precession pulled into its final destination, Madison, and emergency workers there got to say their last goodbyes to their fallen brothers.

La Crosse County Sheriff Steve Helgeson says the autopsy on Steve Lipperer shows he died of blunt force trauma. Federal investigators are still trying to figure out why the helicopter crashed.