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Line of Duty Deaths - page 4
Houston Fire Fighters who made the
Supreme Sacrifice
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Driver
Frank W. Medlenka,
Washington No. 8 steamer, was killed
on November 23, 1901, in an accident
while responding to a fire at the
corner of McKinney and Chartres. |
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Assistant
Fire Chief C. A. Middlekauf
died of
a heart attack at a 3-11 fire at
1817 Center Street on March 10,
1953. He was directing the attack on
the Fedrick Poultry and Egg Company. |
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A collision
between No. 7 chief's car and a
pickup truck on April 14, 1949,
killed,
Chauffeur
Robert "Bobby" Milburn.
He was responding to a box alarm
when the accident happened. |
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Firefighter
Barney C. Moffatt
was killed at
a fire in Mercantile Grain Company,
1215 Hardy, on April 26, 1908. He
and his captain were overhauling in
the main warehouse. |
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Pipe-Ladderman
Aaron O'Brien
was killed on December 20, 1929, in
an accident involving Engine 19 and
a Southern Pacific train. |
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Firefighter
Patrick O'Hara,
Station 6, was killed on the way to
a fire on September 21, 1913. He was
thrown from the engine as it
maneuvered through Sabine and
Lubbock streets. |
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Fire Chief
Thomas A. O'Leary
lost his life on November 22, 1908,
while leading his men battling a
fire in a boxcar loaded with
fireworks that had exploded. |
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Firefighter
Harry "Red" Oxford
died July 3,
1929, from injuries suffered the
previous day when a train broadsided
Engine 18 at a railroad crossing on
Telephone Road at Lombardy Street. |
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Pipe-Ladderman
Robert Reyes
was killed on December 1, 1984, when
he fell from Engine 15 onto the
North Freeway. |
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Lewis "Moe"
Richardson,
a captain at Station 7, died of a
heart attack while battling a
stubborn apartment fire on February
3, 1973. The fire was at 1400
Richmond. |
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A
streetcar-fire engine collision
claimed the life of
Esker J.
Rogers,
a pipe-ladderman at Station 17, on
August 22, 1934. He was filling in
at Station 24 when a box alarm rang
in. |
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Pipe-Ladderman
Charles Rusk
was killed on
June 8, 1932, in a collision between
Ladder 14 and a streetcar at 17th
and Yale. |
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