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Oct 3, 08 - 2:46 PM |
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The United States Fire Administration (USFA) has received notice of the following firefighter fatality:
Name: Douglas Falconer
Rank: Correctional Officer II
Age: 46
Gender: Male
Status: Career
Years of Service: 1
Date of Incident: 10/01/2008
Time of Incident: 1400hrs
Date of Death: 10/01/2008
Fire Department: Arizona State Prison-Globe
Address: 1000 Fairgrounds Road, Globe, AZ 85501
Fire Department Chief: Wade Woolsey
Incident Description: Officer Falconer was working on a fire line with the Globe Wildland Fire Crew while fighting the Sacramento Fire in the vicinity of Lake Havasu City. Falconer complained of feeling dizzy and after sitting, collapsed from a cause still to be reported. Other officer and inmate firefighters responded immediately to provide emergency medical assistance and made every effort to revive Falconer. Sun City paramedics were summoned to the scene and initiated basic life support measures. Officer Falconer was subsequently transported to the Colorado River Medical Center in Needles, California for emergency medical treatment, where at 1445hrs he was pronounced dead.
Incident Location: Vicinity of Lake Havasu City, AZ (USNG: 11S QU 46 21)
Map View:
http://www.fidnet.com/~jlmoore/usng/?zoom=10&usng=11SQU4621&disp=h
Funeral Arrangements: Pending
Memorial Fund Contact and Address: Pending
Tribute is being paid to Correctional Officer II Douglas Falconer at http://www.usfa.dhs.gov/fireservice/fatalities/
To date, 93 firefighter fatalities have been reported to USFA in 2008 as a result of incidents that occurred in 2008. 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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