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The United States Fire Administration (USFA) has received notice of the following firefighter fatalities:
Name: Kyle Perkins
Rank: Firefighter
Age: 45
Gender: Male
Status: Career
Years of Service: 15
Date of Incident: 01/25/2009
Time of Incident: 1402hrs
Date of Death: 01/25/2009
Name: Cory Galloway
Rank: Firefighter
Age: 28
Gender: Male
Status: Career
Years of Service: 1
Date of Incident: 01/25/2009
Time of Incident: 1402hrs
Date of Death: 01/25/2009
Fire Department: Kilgore Fire Department
Address:
Map:
http://floridadisaster.org/gis/kml/viewer.htm?zoom=15&usng=15SUR24198525&disp=h
Fire Department Chief: Dennis Gage
Incident Description: While participating in a training exercise at the Kilgore College Fire Academy, Firefighters Perkins and Galloway were in the bucket of a 95’ E One rear mount platform truck when, for a cause still under investigation, they fell approximately 8 stories. Firefighters Perkins and Galloway succumbed to injuries they received from the accident.
Incident Location: Stark Hall - 607 Elder (USNG: 15S
Map view –
http://floridadisaster.org/gis/kml/viewer.htm?zoom=18&usng=15SUR23658392&disp=h
Funeral Arrangements: Pending
Memorial Fund Contact and Address: Firefighters Perkins & Galloway Memorial Fund, Citizens National Bank, 301 E Main St., Kilgore, TX 75662 - Tele: 903-984-8671
Tribute is being paid to Firefighters Kyle Perkins and Cory Galloway at http://www.usfa.dhs.gov/fireservice/fatalities/
To date, 6 firefighter fatalities have been reported to USFA in 2009 as a result of incidents that occurred in 2009. 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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