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Below is a list of the deadliest firefighter disasters in the United States, in which more than five firefighters died. "Firefighter" is defined as a professional trained to fight fires. Hence the 1933 Griffith Park fire is excluded, as it killed 29 untrained civilians.
Plaques listing the names of firefighters encircle the plaza. When a firefighter dies on duty, local fire officials notify the United States Fire Administration and a notice is immediately posted on the memorial grounds. The flags over the memorial are flown at half-staff in honor of the fallen firefighter. If some criteria are met, the fallen ...
Saluda volunteer firefighters Chad Satcher and Landon Bodie died responding to a structure fire on Beulah Road when their vehicle was hit by a tree as Hurricane Helene tore through South Carolina ...
On December 2 1998, firefighters of the Geelong West Fire Brigade responded to a call for assistance by other firefighters fighting a wildfire from Linton, Victoria, Australia. A sudden change of wind direction caused due to a cold front led to the fire truck being engulfed by the fire on the way to refilling the water tank. As a result, five ...
Darrell Helton, 49, was a firefighter with the Belfry Volunteer Fire Department. He died of a heart attack while shuttling water to a structure fire, according to an incident report from ...
1891 monument in Hoboken, New Jersey. The list of firefighting monuments and memorials covers firefighters' contributions, and some memorials to other fire victims, such as the mass memorial to unknown victims of the 1871 Peshtigo fire, which caused the greatest loss of life of any fire in the United States.
The trio — Thomas Riches, Joseph Jurgens and Christopher Otten — joined scores of New York’s Bravest as they got their new ranks: 32 firefighters were made lieutenants, and 21 lieutenants ...
[4] [5] On the morning of December 29, 1995 the roof of a building in which he was fighting a fire collapsed, pinning him down and starving his brain of oxygen for over six minutes. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] He was rescued from the collapsed structure, but had a cardiac arrest and was taken to a hospital where he lapsed into a coma.