FDNY Fire Service Line of Duty Death
April 6, 1912 - LODD
Fireman Henry J. Kaiser, 28
Engine 231
FDNY. Brooklyn, New York
Fireman Kaiser died as a result of severe head injuries sustained April 3rd, when he and three other firefighters were blown off a second floor fire escape by a backdraft while operating at a three-alarm factory fire.
Four firemen from Engine 131 (now Engine 231) were working on a second floor fire escape when they were hit by a backdraft. The four fell in a heap on the ground and three of the four sprang up and went back to work. The fourth was Fireman Henry J. Kaiser of Engine 131, who lay white and inert. He failed to respond when first aid was given. He was placed in an ambulance unconscious and taken to the Bradford Street Hospital where he died three days later. He was only thirty years old, a member of the Department for two years and was married with two small children. The fire was in a four-story factory at Livonia and William Avenues and was one of the fieriest to visit the Brownsville section of Brooklyn for many years. The fire ate the core out of the brick factory and was valued at $60,000. (From "The Last Alarm" by Boucher, Urbanowicz & Melahn. 2007)
RIP. Never forget.
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