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Line of Duty Deaths - page 2
Houston Fire Fighters who made the
Supreme Sacrifice
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Firefighter
Harry Dodd
was killed in a collision at the
intersection of Dallas and Milam on
July 26, 1923. He was riding on
Ladder No. 1 headed to a fire at
1315 Shaw. |
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Assistant
Fire Chief Vernon J. Dorsett
was killed on January 21, 1949, in
an accident at the intersection of
Harrisburg and Linwood. |
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Claude W.
Edmonds,
acting captain at Central Fire
Station, was killed on August 19,
1926, in a training exercise beside
the station. |
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On February,
23, 1954,
Chauffeur
Woodrow Erwin
died of a heart attack during a
small fire at 2705 Clay. Assigned to
Engine 24, he was acting captain the
day of the fire. |
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District
Chief Lonnie Franklin
(Station 7) was killed January 4,
1983, in an accident at Elgin and
Hutchins. He was responding to an
early morning alarm. |
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Horrace
Gassoway,
a pipe-ladderman assigned to Station
10, was killed in an accident on
August 6, 1941 en route to a
supermarket fire at Preston and
Washington Avenue. |
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Firefighter
Robert Glass
was killed when Service Truck No. 1
slammed into a trolley car as the
firefighters raced to a fire in
Fifth Ward. |
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Firefighter
Edgar Grant
was killed on July 2, 1929, when a
train broadsided Engine 18 at a
railroad crossing on Telephone Road
at Lombardy Street. |
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Fireman H.
A. Harris,
Engine No. 10, was killed on
February 14, 1921 battling a blaze
in the Texas Lamp and Oil Company at
Baker and Pine streets. |
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An explosion
of a railroad tank car on Mykawa
road near Almeda Genoa Road claimed
the life of
Fire
Inspector Truxton Hathaway
on October 19, 1971. |
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Firefighter
Rudolph "Rudy" Hendricks,
Engine 25, was electrocuted at a
fire on June 22, 1929, at 3252
Reeves Street. |
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Chauffeur
Claude Hopkins
was killed on June 30, 1962, in an
accident involving Ladder 2 and a
trailer truck loaded with grain. The
accident occurred at Louisiana and
Preston. |
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