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2012 Webster shooting. In the early morning of December 24, 2012, William Spengler, a 62-year-old man living in West Webster, New York, a suburb of Rochester, deliberately set his home and vehicle on fire. He then perpetrated a mass shooting, firing upon first responders. Spengler killed two firefighters, and injured two more and a police ...
Daniel Thomas Suhr (August 21, 1964 – September 11, 2001) [2] was an American New York City Fire Department (FDNY) firefighter who was killed when a victim falling from the South Tower landed on him during the September 11 attacks. [3] He was the first firefighter to be killed while responding to the attacks on the Twin Towers. [4][5][6]
Anthony Rose, 23. Jesse Steed, 36. Joe Thurston, 33. Travis Turbyfill, 27. William Warneke, 26. Clayton Whitted, 28. Kevin Woyjeck, 21. Garret Zuppiger, 27. Thirteen members of the Granite Mountain Hotshots were killed when the Yarnell Hill Fire suddenly expanded on June 30.
More. TAMAQUA, Pa. (AP) — Two firefighters died responding to a house fire at which a body was found outside, but two people who lived in the home got out safely, Pennsylvania State Police said ...
Below is a list of the deadliest firefighter disasters in the United States, in which more than five firefighters died. "Firefighter" is defined as a professional trained to fight fires. Hence the 1933 Griffith Park fire is excluded, as it killed 29 untrained civilians.
Two firefighters died Saturday after a aircraft they were in to respond to a wildfire crashed in Mohave County, Arizona, local media reported. The Arizona Bureau of Land Management told KPHO-TV ...
Peter James Ganci Jr. (October 27, 1946 – September 11, 2001) was a career firefighter in the New York City Fire Department killed in the September 11 attacks. At the time of the attacks, he held the rank of Chief of Department, the highest ranking uniformed fire officer in the department. [2]
The Uniformed Firefighters Association of Greater New York also reported over 170 deaths of firefighters due to 9/11-related illnesses, and that roughly 1 in 8 firefighters who were at Ground Zero have developed cancer. [247] At least 221 policemen have died in the years since 2001 from illnesses related to the attacks in New York City. [248]