The U.S. Fire Administration (USFA) has received notice of the following firefighter fatality:
Name: George Marshall Sanford
Rank: First Lieutenant
Age: 67
Gender: Male
Status: Volunteer
Years of Service: 50
Date of Incident: 04/15/2012
Time of Incident: 1808hrs
Date of Death: 04/15/2012
Fire Department: Redding Fire & Emergency Medical Services Company # 1
Address: PO Box 86, 186 Black Rock TPKE, Redding, CT 06896
Fire Department Chief: Ron Van Oostendorp
Incident Description: First Lieutenant Sanford succumbed to unknown medical causes in the driver’s seat of the fire company ambulance just as he was about to leave the station in response to a fire call.
Incident Location: Pending
Funeral Arrangements: Pending
Tribute is being paid to First Lieutenant George Marshall Sanford at http://www.usfa.fema.gov/fireservice/fatalities/
To date, 30 firefighter fatalities have been reported to USFA in 2012. Year-to-date monthly and annual USFA firefighter fatality reports are posted online @ http://www.usfa.fema.gov/fireservice/fatalities/statistics/ff_stats.shtm.
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