GA Firefighter Found Dead in Station

Firefighters with DeKalb County Fire Rescue Department are mourning the loss of a colleague who died in the station.

Barry Everett, 42, responded was found deceased in bed at the fire station during shift change Wednesday morning. 

Officials say the last call that Everett responded to was around midnight and they found him unresponsive at 8 a.m. 

Everett served with the department for nines years and was assigned to Fire Station 25.

“We ask that you continue to keep the family of master firefighter Everett in your thoughts and prayers,” Capt. Dion Bentley told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.