U.S. Fire Administration Firefighter Fatality Notification - East Pembroke, NY

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The United States Fire Administration (USFA) has received notice of the following firefighter fatality:

Name: Norm Koch

Rank: Fire Police Captain

Age: 79

Gender: Male

Status: Volunteer

Years of Service: 50+

Date of Incident: 12/30/2008

Time of Incident: 1245hrs

Date of Death: 12/30/2008

Fire Department: East Pembroke Fire Department

Address: 2623 Main Rd., PO Box 44, East Pembroke, NY 14056 (USNG: 17T QH 1947 6386)

Map:

http://www.fidnet.com/~jlmoore/usng/?zoom=13&usng=17TQH19476386&disp=m

Fire Department Chief: Robert Yungfleisch

Incident Description: Fire Police Captain Koch suffered an apparent heart attack while assisting at the scene of a motor vehicle accident. Koch was transported to the hospital but all efforts to revive him were unsuccessful.

 

Funeral Arrangements:  Pending

Memorial Fund Contact and Address:  In honor of Fire Police Captain Norm Koch, c/o East Pembroke Fire Department, PO Box 44, East Pembroke, NY  14056

Tribute is being paid to Fire Police Captain Norm Koch at http://www.usfa.dhs.gov/fireservice/fatalities/

To date, 112 firefighter fatalities have been reported to USFA in 2008 as a result of incidents that occurred in 2008 and one from a prior year incident.    USFA does not have a Line-of-Duty-Death (LODD) criterion nor does it make LODD determinations. Please note, running totals of firefighter fatalities used on these initial notices do not necessarily reflect the number of firefighter fatalities used in totals for the (provisional) monthly year-to-date USFA firefighter fatality reports, or year-end (provisional) reports posted online (http://www.usfa.dhs.gov/fireservice/fatalities/statistics/ff_stats.shtm). Firefighter fatalities in USFA reports are summarized by date/year-of-incident. Initial notices posted online (http://www.usfa.dhs.gov/fireservice/fatalities/) and distributed via USFA listserve do not represent the final on-duty firefighter fatality determination by USFA for such reports, nor LODD determination made by the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation (http://www.FireHero.org) for names added each subsequent year to the National Fallen Firefighters Memorial at the National Fire Academy in  Emmitsburg, MD, they are the beginning of a research process for each firefighter fatality reported so that such determinations can be made.

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