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Name: Dean Walter Mathison
Rank: Chief
Age: 63
Gender: Male
Status: Volunteer
Years of Service: 42
Date of Incident: 02/09/2009
Time of Incident: 1900hrs
Date of Death: 02/10/2009
Fire Department: Clayton-Winchester Fire Department
Address: PO Box 26, Larsen, WI 54947-0026
Fire Department Chief: Assistant Chief Glen D. Mathison
Incident Description: Fire Chief Mathison responded to a vehicle fire incident then returned to the station to assist with clean-up and returning the equipment to service. The following day while Mathison was attending a quarterly fire department safety league (regional), he was discovered unresponsive in the restroom. Care was initiated and Chief Mathison was transported to the hospital but could not be revived.
Funeral Arrangements: Pending
Memorial Fund Contact and Address: Pending
Tribute is being paid to Fire Chief Dean Walter Mathison at http://www.usfa.dhs.gov/fireservice/fatalities/
To date, 10 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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