FDNY Fire Service Line of Duty Death
March 25, 1922 - LODD
Fireman Frederick Brandt, 26
Engine 208
FDNY. Vinegar Hill - Brooklyn. New York
While Fireman Brandt was on his way to a fire, he was crushed to death under the wheels of his own engine truck after he fell to the ground.
Fireman Frederick G. Brandt lost his life by being crushed under the wheels of the motor hose truck of Engine 208. The engine was hurrying to answer an alarm that came from Box 86 at Hudson Avenue and York Street just after midnight. The fire was in the rear of a tailor shop. Brandt was the first off the moving truck and somehow stumbled to the ground. He fell under the wheels of the truck, which passed diagonally over his body. He was carried to the sidewalk and weakly said to his mates “I am cooked, I guess I am done”. Brandt was twenty-six years old and lived with his parents at 146 Woodbine Street. Several days earlier he announced that he was engaged to be married. (From "The Last Alarm" by Boucher, Urbanowicz & Melahn, 2007.)
RIP. Never forget.
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