FIRE DEPARTMENT
MEMORIALS
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THE ONES WE HAVE LOST
Killed while fighting a fire in the hold of a ship
Thrown from a horse cart while enroute to a fire
Killed while fighting a theater fire on Market Street
Kicked in the head by a horse while teaming him up to respond to a fire
Thrown from horse cart while en route to a fire
Killed in a house fire on Perry Street
Crushed to death at the corner of Perry and East Monroe while riding tailboard when a ladder truck backed into him
Died of heart attack after working multiple structure fires on the same day
He died when a smokestack collapsed during a fire at the Volunteers of America at the corner of Putnam and Adams - currently the location of Amvets Post 17

