Dec 24, 2009 Fire chief suffers sudden cardiac death during emergency medical response – Utah. Dec 24, 2001 Fire fighter suffers cardiac arrest while responding to a structure fire – Texas.

Dec 23, 2011 Career fire fighter dies during fire-fighting operations at a multi-family residential structure fire – Massachusetts. Dec 23, 1995 Fire fighter receives severe electrical shock causing cardiac complications, forcing his retirement, and eventually causing his death – Massachusetts. Dec 23, 2000 Fire fighter dies at house fire – New Hampshire.

One of the darkest dates in the Fire Service! Again, thank you Firefighterclosecalls.com for helping tell the story of 59 firefighters that died in the line of duty on this date. I remember my Chief holding training sessions about the three firefighters killed in Keokuk, Iowa. It helped instill in me the need to review […]

No LODD’s in the NIOSH files for today but Firefighterclosecalls.com has reports of several dating back to 1882.

Dec 20, 2004 One probationary career firefighter dies and four career firefighters are injured at a two – alarm residential structure fire – Texas.

Dec 19, 2014 Volunteer fire fighter dies from injuries sustained at a residential structure fire – New York.

A tough day! In addition to the NIOSH reports below, Firefighterclosecalls.com has reports of 12 other Line of Duty Deaths dating back to 1906. Dec 18, 2003 Fire fighter dies at home after shift – Maryland. Dec 18, 1999 Motor-vehicle incident claims the life of a volunteer fire fighter and injures a volunteer chief – […]

Dec 17, 2008 Volunteer fire fighter sitting in his parked vehicle warning oncoming traffic of a motor vehicle incident was struck and killed by a tractor-trailer – Montana.

During the cold, winter morning of December 16, 1944 over 200,000 German troops, supported by close to 1,000 tanks, attacked Allied forces along a 75 mile front in the Ardennes Forest. This proved to be Adolph Hitler’s final attempt to stop the Allied advance into Germany and became known as The Battle of the Bulge. […]

Dec 15, 2013 Career fire lieutenant killed by roof/ceiling collapse during overhaul – Georgia.