Born: 2/23/1924 LODD: 4/4/1969 Burial: Union Cemetery, Georgetown, Delaware Fire Company: Georgetown Georgetown Fire Chief Clifton M. Rogers died on April 4, 1969 at a house fire that occurred five miles west of Georgetown. As heavy smoke poured from the structure, Rogers began laying hose. He had just moved the tanker he was driving into better position, when he was stricken with a heart attack. He was dead on arrival at Nanticoke Memorial Hospital in
Born: 12/31/1877 LODD: 6/11/1929 Burial: Cathedral Cemetery, Wilmington, Delaware Fire Company: Wilmington Fire Department A member of the old Weccacoe Volunteers and the Wilmington Fire Department Engine Company 6, Daniel A. Haggerty, 52, suffered a heart attack and lost his grip during training and fell from the top of a 16 foot ladder. The fall caused additional injuries and it is believed he died moments later. He was rushed to the St. Francis Hospital but
Born: 7/3/1888 LODD: 12/23/1945 Burial: Cathedral Cemetery, Wilmington, Delaware Fire Company: Wilmington Fire Department Deputy Chief Daniel Francis McGranary of the Wilmington Fire Department suffered a fatal heart attack at the scene of a house fire on McCauley Street. At 57 years of age, Deputy Chief McGranary was one of the oldest members of the department. He was stricken in the front room of the house and carried by George Fenton and other firemen to
Born: 3/19/1905 LODD: 1/16/1926 Burial: King’s Assembly of God Church Cemetery, Marshallton, Delaware Fire Company: Cranston Heights Fire Company David E. Hook, age 20, was seriously injuried while responding to a alarm in Marshallton around 11 p.m. on the evening of January 15, 1926. He died of his injuries the next day while on the operating table at Delaware Hospital. Hook was one of three Cranston Heights firefighters who died when the engine they were on,
Born: 6/15/1907 LODD: 1/15/1926 Burial: White Clay Creek Church Cemetery, Newark, Delaware Fire Company: Cranston Heights Fire Company Edward Clyde Ainsworth, Jr., 18, died enroute to Homeopathic Hospital as a result of injuries received when the fire engine on which was riding skidded on ice while attempting to make a turn at Foard’s Corner. The engine careened into a tree before it overturned. Ainsworth was one of three Cranston Heights firefighters who died in the incident.
Born: 1895 LODD: 4/29/1922 Burial: Silverbrook Cemetery, Wilmington, Delaware Fire Company: Wilmington Fire Department Wilmington Fire Department firefighter Edward R Pappa died on Saturday April 29, 1922 from injuries sustained after a brick wall fell on him while fighting a fire that occurred on the morning of March 1, 1922 at 220 King Street. Pappa had been suffering in Delaware Hospital since the incident, where his condition had taken a turn for the worse. Doctors
