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Firefighter Recruit William Cody Treatch - LODD

Firefighter Recruit William Cody Treatch Rural Metro Fire Department Tucson, Arizona On Wednesday, August 14, 2024, Firefighter Recruit William Cody Treatch suffered a heat-related emergency during ... Read More
1 heat-related emergency training. fire academy Banner University Medical Center

Firefighter Rodrick Shane - Lambert Wayne Township Fire Department - LODD

Firefighter Rodrick Shane Lambert Wayne Township Fire Department Indianapolis, Indiana On Wednesday, May 24, 1995, Firefighter Rodrick Shane Lambert was paralyzed when the fire engine in which he wa... Read More
accident medical complications fire engine wreck

Virginia deputy slain during traffic stop

Deputy Sheriff Hunter Reedy Smyth County Sheriff's Office, Virginia End of Watch Friday, August 9, 2024 Hunter Reedy Deputy Sheriff Hunter Reedy was shot and killed while assisting officers from ... Read More
1 traffic stop shot and killed line of duty death

NEW online, self-study course at the National Fire Academy

NEW online, self-study course at the National Fire Academy The National Fire Academy announces the release of a new, on-line, self-study course, Cost Recovery for Emergency Incidents (course code Q07... Read More
self-study course cost recovery emergency incidents

DELAWARE FIREFIGHTER, 22, KILLED AT CRASH SCENE

Preliminary reports out of Georgetown, Delaware are that Firefighter EMT (age 22) Thomas “Tommy” Wilson Berry III stopped in his work vehicle as he came upon a crash around 1630 this afternoon. He ... Read More
1 Sussex County Thomas Wilson Berry III fatally injured crash scene Delaware State Police

PARAMEDIC KILLED-LODD, HIS EMT WIFE Injured-Ambulance Crash

A Paramedic (also a Firefighter) was killed in the Line of Duty Friday in a head-on collision involving an ambulance that was transporting a passenger in Arkansas. A civilian in the other car was ki... Read More
2 paramedic-firefighter ambulance transport passenger crash Emerson Ambulance Service

FDNY FIRE MARSHAL, 53, LODD-Cardiac

We regret to pass on the Line of Duty Death of FDNY Supervising Fire Marshal George Snyder Jr. SFM Snyder suffered a cardiac episode after working last Friday, and the 53-year-old died the next day. ... Read More
1 cardiac episode Fire Marshal Line of Duty Death FDNY

NY Firefighter, 53, 9/11 Cancer LODD

We regret to pass this on from the Syosset Volunteer Fire Department (Nassau County, Long Island, NY) the Line of Duty Death of Firefighter/Paramedic Court Cousins. Firefighter Cousins (pictured) suc... Read More
1 Syosset Volunteer Fire Department chronic lymphocytic leukemia Firefighter Cousins

UPDATE: FIREFIGHTER, 27, LODD AT KANSAS DWELLING FIRE

The Wichita Fire Department has identified the Firefighter who died in the Line of Duty while operating at that mutual aid house fire yesterday. Chief Tammy Snow stated that Firefighter Ty Voth, who ... Read More
1 Chief Tammy Snow Firefighter Ty Voth Wichita Fire Department house fire

WICHITA (KS) FIREFIGHTER LODD AT HOUSE FIRE

We regret to pass on that a Firefighter with the Wichita FD has died in the Line of Duty following a mutual aid working house fire, south of Wichita this afternoon. Shortly before 1500 hours, in 100-... Read More
firefighter. Line of Duty Death Wichita Fire Department mutual aid working house fire