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Name: Robert Johnson
Rank: Firefighter
Age: 75
Gender: Male
Status: Volunteer
Years of Service: 17
Date of Incident: 10/20/2008
Time of Incident: Pending
Date of Death: 07/05/2009
Fire Department: Mahopac Falls Volunteer Fire Department
Address: PO Box 190, 17 Brook RD, Mahopac Falls, NY 10542
Fire Department Chief: Ann Link
Incident Description: Firefighter Johnson passed away from a head injury he received from a fall while retrieving SCBA from fire apparatus during a fire safety demonstration at the Pine Grove Nursery School in Mahopac. The fire department reported that the cause of the fall is unknown; Johnson went around to the far side of the apparatus to get the air-pack and, when he did not return, was discovered by other firefighters unconscious on the ground. Firefighter Johnson was treated on-scene and transported to the hospital. However, he never regained consciousness and succumbed to his injury approximately nine months later.
Incident Location: Pine Grove Nursery School, 85 Myrtle Ave, Mahopac
Funeral Arrangements: Calling hours are from 1900-2100hrs 07/07/2009, and from 1400-1600hrs and 1900-2100hrs 07/08/2009 tomorrow at Joseph J. Smith Funeral Home, 692 U.S. Route 6 in Mahopac. A Mass will be held at 0945hrs, 07/09/2009, at St. John the Evangelist Church, 221 E. Lake Blvd., followed by interment at noon at Rose Hills Memorial Park in Putnam Valley.
Memorial Fund Contact and Address: Memorial donations may be made to Toys for Tots, Putnam-Westchester chapter, c/o Bill Lewis, 44 Somerset Lane, Putnam Valley, NY 10579.
Tribute is being paid to Firefighter Robert Johnson at http://www.usfa.dhs.gov/fireservice/fatalities/
To date, 55 firefighter fatalities have been reported to USFA in 2009; 53 from incidents that occurred in 2009 and 2 from a previous year incident. Year-to-date monthly and annual USFA firefighter fatality reports are posted online @ http://www.usfa.dhs.gov/fireservice/fatalities/statistics/ff_stats.shtm
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