Age: 46 Cause of Death: Stress/Overexertion Rank: Captain Nature of Death: Heart Attack Classification: Volunteer Emergency Duty: No Incident Date: 04/26/2011 Duty Type: After Incident Time: 21:30 Activity Type: EMS/Patient Care Death Date: 04/27/2011 Fixed Prop. Use: Outdoor Property Fire Dept. Info: Neon Volunteer Fire and Rescue Department 50 Rescue ST USNG: 17S LB 4799 1752 Neon , Kentucky 41840 Chief: ...

ODESSA, MO. - A Missouri firefighter who died in the line of duty is in the national spotlight. Odessa firefighter Roger Vorwark was working his third fire of the day when he collapsed and died in March of 2009. More than 700 people turned out for his memorial services in the small city of Odessa. Now, Vorwark is being honored in ...

CHICAGO - A Chicago firefighter was killed this morning after a he fell from a ladder while fighting a grease-chute fire at a West Looprestaurant. He's been identified as 31-year-old Christopher Wheatley of Chicago. He was pronounced dead at 1:19 a.m. Chicago Fire Department Commissioner spoke outside Stroger Hospital this morning. He said the firefighters were at Avec Restaurant at 615 ...

Age: 59 Cause of Death: Stress/Overexertion Rank: Firefighter Nature of Death: Heart Attack Classification: Volunteer Emergency Duty: Yes Incident Date: 04/25/2011 Duty Type: On-Scene Non-Fire Incident Time: 23:30 Activity Type: Other Death Date: 04/29/2011 Fixed Prop. Use: Outdoor Property Fire Dept. Info: Barton Volunteer Fire Department 5135 Hwy 302 USNG: 16S BD 35 72 Olive Branch , Mississippi 38654 [widget:news__lodd_forum] Chief: ...

Detroit -- A Detroit businessman was sentenced to 41 2/3 to 62 years in prison today for causing the death of a firefighter who was trying to extinguish an arson blaze. Mario Willis, 27, had faced up to life in prison when sentenced by Wayne County Circuit Judge Michael Callahan. Willis, who was once honored by the City Council with a ...

BORODINO, NY -- A Borodino volunteer firefighter died Saturday evening after complaining of trouble breathing while responding to a barn collapse in the town of Spafford. Gerard Marcheterre, 50, was riding in a rescue pumper truck en route to the collapse when his breathing became labored, said his brother, Second Assistant Fire Chief Joseph Marcheterre. A SAVES ambulance met the tanker ...

PORT ARTHUR, TX - An off-duty Port Arthur firefighter died over the Fourth of July weekend when he fell from a balcony of a house in Crystal Beach. Steven McShan, 24, of Lumberton, was climbing to a third-floor balcony from the second floor of the house when he fell about 40 feet onto a concrete driveway about 8:45 p.m. Saturday, said ...

CHICAGO - A wake will be held today for a Homewood firefighter who died while trying to save an elderly couple last week. Brian Carey, 28, had been on the job just two months when he rushed into the burning home of Wendell and Bertha Elias Tuesday night. Carey's father, also named Brian, believes his son was hit by a backdraft ...

The family of Lieutenant Kevin M. Kelley of the Boston Fire Department filed a wrongful death lawsuit in Suffolk Superior Court yesterday against six companies contracted by the city to inspect or maintain the braking systems on the firetruck he died in last year. Kelley died Jan. 9, 2009, after Boston Fire Department Ladder 26 suffered catastrophic brake failure and careered ...

It has been four years since South King Fire and Rescue veteran Doug Waller died as a result of contracting HIV on the job, but his death is just now being recognized as having occurred in the line of duty. In September, a contingent of South King personnel traveled to Colorado Springs, Colo., with Waller’s wife, Sharon, her two sons and ...

YUKON, OK — A retired Yukon firefighter was shot and killed by a Piedmont police officer after forcing his way into the officer's home in Yukon. Police say 47-year-old Devin Nemecek was killed Tuesday by officer Jack Neumann Yukon police spokeswoman Klare Ly said Neumann returned home to find Nemecek banging on a door. Ly said Nemecek forced his way into ...

Under the blazing sun, they waited. In their crisp blue uniforms and white gloves, hundreds of firefighters in perfect formation outside the funeral home waited. For more than two miles along the hushed street, children on bicycles and old men waving American flags waited. Outside St. John Fisher Catholic Church, in the grassy yards of strangers, hundreds more waited. And when ...

HINSDALE- Hinsdale Fire Department Deputy Chief Mark Johnson, 55, died unexpectedly Monday while exercising in the station's fitness room. Johnson, a 24-year veteran of the department, was found unresponsive in the station's workout room Monday afternoon while on duty. Firefighters attempted to revive him on the scene, but Johnson was pronounced dead after arriving at Hinsdale Hospital shortly after, according to ...

WARWICKSHIRE, UK - The father of one of four firefighters killed in a fire at a warehouse in 2007 was one of six men recently arrested in connection with the deaths. Paul Stephens, 54, was questioned along with two others last Wednesday. Three other men were arrested in February. Mr Stephen's son Ashley died alongside Darren Yates-Badley, John Averis and Ian ...

KANSAS CITY, MO - The Missouri State Water Patrol is investigating what’s presumed to be a fatal accident this evening involving a personal watercraft on Longview Lake. The watercraft collided with a deck boat, killing the man on the watercraft, officials said. The accident occurred about 6 p.m. near the Longview Lake Beach. The victim, a Kansas City firefighter believed to ...