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On the evening of December 27, 1983, firefighters in Buffalo, New York responded to a call regarding a propane gas leak. Shortly after their arrival, the propane ignited, leveling a warehouse and causing a wide swath of damage. Five firefighters and two civilians were killed in the blast and dozens more injured.
The Buffalo Fire Department provides fire protection and first responder emergency medical services to the city of Buffalo, New York. The department serves a population of 278,349 people in a geographic area of 40.38 square miles (104.6 km 2 ).
Donald Herbert joined the Buffalo Fire Department in 1986. [4] [5] On the morning of December 29, 1995 the roof of a building in which he was fighting a fire collapsed, pinning him down and starving his brain of oxygen for over six minutes.
Brockton firefighters said a final good-bye to one of their own at a solemn walk-through to pay tribute to firefighter Jason A. Gould, 46, of Middleboro, at Russell & Pica Funeral Home in Lakeville.
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Garnell W. Whitfield, Jr. is the former fire commissioner of the Buffalo Fire Department in Buffalo, New York and a social justice advocate. He received national attention for spreading awareness of white supremacy and domestic terrorism after his mother, Ruth Whitfield, was killed in the 2022 Buffalo shooting.
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Pope John Paul II was the subject of three premature obituaries.. A prematurely reported obituary is an obituary of someone who was still alive at the time of publication. . Examples include that of inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel, whose premature obituary condemning him as a "merchant of death" for creating military explosives may have prompted him to create the Nobel Prize; [1 ...