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  • Louisiana Firefighter Dies After Battling Blaze
    Louisiana Firefighter Dies After Battling Blaze

    A Livingston Parish firefighter died Saturday morning after experiencing a medical emergency shortly after battling a house fire.Firefighter Scott Osenenko, 45, with Fire Protection District No. 4 responded to 9673 Florida Boulevard around 4 a.m. on...

    News • December 4th, 2011

  • N.C. Firefighter Dies After Collapsing During Search

    A North Carolina firefighter died Thursday morning.Johnny Norton, of the Hot Springs Fire Department, Madison County Fire Station 3, went into cardiac arrest while participating in a search, according to FireNews.net.He was rushed to Mission Hospital...

    News • November 24th, 2011

  • Ohio Fire Chief Dies After Heart Attack at Scene

    An Ohio fire chief suffered an apparent heart attack while assisting at a house fire.Lewisville Community Fire Chief Greg Baker, 52, was helping refill tankers when he was stricken, according to The Times Leader.An EMT treated Baker, and called for a...

    News • November 21st, 2011

  • False Ceiling Hid Flames in Canada LODDs

    They likely thought the fire in the ceiling was small and under control. Then it killed them. North Perth firefighters Ray Walter, 30, and Ken Rea, 56, had a few seconds' warning that the roof above their heads was engulfed in hidden flames ready...

    News • November 17th, 2011

  • Pa. Fire Police Officer Stricken at Scene

    A longtime member of the Rothsville Fire Company collapsed and died Thursday morning while assisting at the scene of a crash. Fire Police Officer Ed Steffy, 71, was directing traffic at East Newport Road and Rothsville Road when he suffered an...

    News • November 10th, 2011

  • NIOSH Issues Minn. Fall Probe Report

    Federal investigators have determined that both the fire chief and an instructor yelled at a firefighter to get down off a rope just before he plunged to his death.Chip Imker, 35, a member of Cambridge Fire Department in Minnesota, was killed May 23...

    News • October 31st, 2011

  • Virginia Firefighter Found Dead in Station
    Virginia Firefighter Found Dead in Station

    Funeral services will be held Thursday for a veteran Fairfax County, Va. firefighter found dead in his bunk in the station on Saturday morning.Horace "Chris" Pendergrass, 49, was found in the bunkroom of Station 41 at about 8:30 a.m., according to...

    News • October 22nd, 2011

  • Ga. Firefighter Exposed to Hepatitis Dies

    A Georgia firefighter exposed to Hepatitis while assisting at an incident in 1993 died in July.Fulton County Firefighter Harold Gregory Gibson, 53, died on July 2, according to the USFA.The 12-year veteran contracted Hepatitis C after coming in...

    News • October 20th, 2011

  • NIOSH Urges Caution After Ohio LODD

    NIOSH investigators say a number of factors led to the death of an Ohio firefighter last year.Ryan Neil Seitz, 26, was killed instantly when a pressurized water tank exploded and struck a hose reel. Part of that hose reel struck him in the head...

    News • October 13th, 2011

  • New Jersey Firefighter Dies After Working Out
    New Jersey Firefighter Dies After Working Out

    A Cape May firefighter died Monday while returning from a gymnasium, according to The Cape May County Herald.Lt. Andy Boyt, 47, stopped his car on Route 9 and Jaden Road at approximately 3:45 p.m., and a passenger in the car administered CPR.EMTs...

    News • October 4th, 2011

  • Guam Firefighter Dies After Responding

    A Guam firefighter died on Thursday after feeling ill while responding to emergency calls the previous night.

    News • September 30th, 2011

  • Guam Firefighter Dies After Responding

    A Guam firefighter died on Thursday after feeling ill while responding to emergency calls the previous night.

    News • September 30th, 2011

  • N.C. Firefighter Dies After Responding to Calls

    A North Carolina firefighter died Sept. 22 within 24 hours of responding to calls with his department.Sandy Bottom Capt. George W. Fisher III,56, was getting a vehicle serviced when he collapsed, according to a report from the N.C. Fire Marshal's...

    News • September 26th, 2011

  • Pa. Fire Lt. Collapses and Dies at Fire School
    Pa. Fire Lt. Collapses and Dies at Fire School

    Keith Rankin was a big man. A real "teddy bear of a guy" who constantly did for others. For his fellow firefighters, that's the tough part. "He would do absolutely anything for anyone, and in the end, when it was our turn to do something...

    News • September 26th, 2011

  • Iowa Firefighter Killed Directing Traffic

    Shelby Firefighter Michael Collins was killed while directing traffic around an accident scene on I-80.

    News • September 19th, 2011

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