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Name: Herbert "Herbie" T. Johnson
Rank: Captain
Age: 54
Gender: Male
Status: Career
Years of Service: 32
Date of Incident: 11/02/2012
Time of Incident: 1731hrs
Date of Death: 11/02/2012
Fire Department: Chicago Fire Department
Address: 3510 South Michigan Avenue, Floor 2, Chicago, IL 60653 (USNG: 16T DM 4822 3118)
Fire Department Chief: Fire Commissioner José A. Santiago
Incident Description: Captain Johnson died from inhalation injuries sustained while operating at a structure fire. Media reports said that "Johnson died after saving several families--including many with small children--from a burning South Side home." Investigation of the fatal fire incident continues.
Incident Location: 2315 W. 50th Place, Chicago, IL (USNG: 16T DM 4330 2799)
Funeral Arrangements: Thursday, November 8, 2012, Saint Rita of Cascia Shrine Chapel, 7740 S. Western Ave., Chicago, IL
Tribute is being paid to Captain Herbert "Herbie" T. Johnson at http://www.usfa.fema.gov/fireservice/fatalities/
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Name: David Mitchell Tatum
Rank: Lieutenant
Age: 55
Gender: Male
Status: Volunteer
Years of Service: 6
Date of Incident: 11/04/2012
Time of Incident: 0045hrs
Date of Death: 11/05/2012
Fire Department: White Oak Fire Department
Address: PO Box 130, 10838 NC 53, White Oak, NC 28399
Fire Department Chief: Tim Tatum
Incident Description: Lieutenant Tatum became sick at the scene of an emergency response but did not request treatment at that time. Later in the day, he began having trouble breathing and became unconscious. Tatum was treated and transported to Bladen County Hospital and then transferred to Cape Fear Valley Hospital in Fayetteville where he passed away from a cause still to be determined.
Incident Location: Pending
Funeral Arrangements: Visitation, 11/09/2012 from 1800-2000hrs - Bladen Funeral Home, Elizabethtown, NC. Services, 1300hrs on 11/10/2012 at the White Oak Baptist Church, White Oak, NC.
Tribute is being paid to Lieutenant David Mitchell Tatum at http://www.usfa.fema.gov/fireservice/fatalities/
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Name: Walter Patmon, Jr.
Rank: Firefighter
Age: 61
Gender: Male
Status: Career
Years of Service: 18
Date of Incident: 11/11/2012
Time of Incident: 2200hrs
Date of Death: 11/11/2012
Fire Department: Chicago Fire Department
Address: 3510 South Michigan Avenue, Floor 2, Chicago, IL 60653
Fire Department Chief: Fire Commissioner José A. Santiago
Incident Description: Upon returning to quarters after helping to put out a small kitchen fire in the South Side Beverly neighborhood of Chicago, Firefighter Patmon fell ill while cleaning equipment. Patmon was treated by fellow first responders and transported to the hospital where he passed away from an apparent heart attack.
Incident Location: 1500 block of West 99th Street (USNG: 16T DM 4510 1824)
Tribute is being paid to Firefighter Walter Patmon, Jr., at http://www.usfa.fema.gov/fireservice/fatalities/
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Name: John McClelland Hall
Rank: Deputy Fire Marshal
Age: 48
Gender: Male
Status: Career
Years of Service: 20+
Date of Incident: 11/03/2012
Time of Incident: 1700hrs
Date of Death: 11/07/2012
Fire Department: Bladen County Emergency Services
Address: PO Box 1646, Elizabethtown, NC 28337
Fire Department Chief: Emergency Services Director Bradley Kinlaw
Incident Description: Deputy Fire Marshal Hall responded to and actively participated in fighting a fire in the Carvers Creek Community. He was also the primary investigator of the fire. During the incident, Hall fell ill and was put on bed rest. Several days later, he was taken to the hospital where he passed away from a heart related cause.
Incident Location: 308 Cord Rd, Council, NC (USNG: 17S QU 3625 1328)
Tribute is being paid to Deputy Fire Marshal John McClelland Hall at http://www.usfa.fema.gov/fireservice/fatalities/
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Name: John T. Sayles
Rank: Captain
Age: 38
Gender: Male
Status: Volunteer
Years of Service: 10
Date of Incident: 11/14/2012
Time of Incident: 1652hrs
Date of Death: 11/13/2012
Fire Department: Pentwater Fire Department
Address: 486 E Park ST, Pentwater, MI 49449
Fire Department Chief: Terry Cluchey
Incident Description: Fire Captain Sayles responded with his fire department to a working residential structure fire. Fewer than twenty-four hours later, Sayles was at home when he experienced chest pain and difficulty breathing. Emergency assistance was summoned and he was transported to the hospital. After being evaluated and while being transported to a second hospital for surgery to repair an aortic aneurysm, it ruptured, resulting in Captain Sayles death.
Incident Location: 2419 W Washington RD, Hart, MI
Tribute is being paid to Captain John T. Sayles at http://www.usfa.fema.gov/fireservice/fatalities/
To date, 72 firefighter fatalities have been reported to USFA in 2012. Year-to-date monthly and annual USFA firefighter fatality reports are posted online @http://www.usfa.fema.gov/fireservice/fatalities/statistics/ff_stats.shtm
Source: FEMA
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