WOODMERE FIRE DEPARTMENT LODD LT PETE LUND (RETIRED FDNY R2) 6/14/2005

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Woodmere Fire Department Line of Duty Death​



June 14, 2005 - LODD
Lieutenant Pete Lund, 54
Woodmere Fire Department, Woodmere, New York
Retired FDNY Rescue 2


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Lieutenant Lund responded as the officer on his fire departmentâ019s heavy rescue to a working fire in a residence. Lieutenant Lund participated in a search of the structure and opened up to allow engine company firefighters access to the fire in the attic. After the fire suppression operations were completed, Lieutenant Lund left the structure where the fire had occurred and sat down on a curb to rest. A firefighter walking by Lieutenant Lund asked him if he was feeling well. Seconds later, Lieutenant Lund lost consciousness and was found to be pulseless and not breathing. Emergency medical aid was summoned, CPR was immediately started, and an AED was applied as ALS equipment was readied. These interventions were not successful, and Lieutenant Lund was loaded into an ambulance and transported to a hospital. Despite these efforts, Lieutenant Lund was pronounced dead at the hospital. The cause of death was listed as a heart attack. Lieutenant Lund had recently retired from a distinguished career as a rescue company officer of Rescue Co. 2 in 2003 with the Fire Department New York. He was a lifelong member of the Woodmere Fire Department, as well as an active member of the Kentland Volunteer Fire Department.



Passed away in the Line of Duty with the Woodmere Fire Department while fighting a house fire. He suffered a Heart Attack.

He was a retired NYFD lieutenant.

During his career, Lund risked his life numerous times to save others. In 2002, he aided in the rescue of an unconscious mother and her three-year-old son from their burning Brooklyn apartment. In 1996, he narrowly escaped the collapse of a chop-shop in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn.

After retiring from the FDNY, Lund continued to volunteer with the Woodmere Fire Department, following in the footsteps of his father. Lund's father, Clarence "Bunny" Lund, joined the Woodmere Fire Department in 1924 and worked his way up to chief - a position he held in the 1960s.


RIP. Never forget.
 
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A Veteran Firefighter Dies After a Blaze on Long Island​


By Thomas J. Lueck
June 16, 2005

A retired New York City fire lieutenant who, in a 30-year career, was cited repeatedly for bravery and who tirelessly searched for survivors after the 9/11 attack, died apparently of a heart attack on Tuesday night after putting out a blaze with a volunteer department on Long Island, the authorities said yesterday.

The firefighter, Lt. Peter B. Lund, 54, collapsed about 10 p.m. outside a home in Woodmere where he and his fellow volunteers, including his son, had extinguished an electrical fire. He was pronounced dead at St. John's Episcopal Hospital in Far Rockaway shortly before midnight.

Lieutenant Lund, who lived in Valley Stream, came from a family of dedicated firefighters. His father, a plumber who died at 97, served for 75 years as a volunteer with the Woodmere department, and was its chief for a time.

Lieutenant Lund, too, had been chief of the Woodmere department, from 1989 through 1991. He continued as a member of the squad after his retirement from the New York City force in 2003. He served for 35 years with the Woodmere Fire Department.

"He was the consummate firefighter," said George Laakso, the chief of the Woodmere department. "Whenever you went in a fire with him, you knew you were going to come out."

"He's one of those guys who do it like it's their life, it's in their blood," said Rick Velotti, 47, a volunteer with the neighboring Hewlett Bay Fire Department, and a friend of Mr. Lund's since childhood. "To him, a fire is a personal affront."

In his three decades with the New York City Fire Department, Lieutenant Lund developed particular expertise in techniques of rescuing people trapped in collapsed buildings; he sometimes taught these techniques at firefighting seminars across the country. He was assigned to fire houses in Queens and Brooklyn, and was the second most senior officer at Rescue 2 in Crown Heights from 1995 until his retirement.

Department records show that he received 14 citations for bravery, 10 of them for extraordinary work by his unit, and 4 for personal acts of heroism.

In 1995, he was cited for the rescue of a 13-year-old girl who was unconscious and badly burned on the third floor of a burning building on Park Place. He reached the third floor through flames, extreme heat and heavy smoke on the floors below, the citation said, and continued alone up the building's precarious stairs after his partner's mask malfunctioned; ultimately, he saved the girl by breaking through a door that was blocked by her unconscious body.

Yesterday, former colleagues at Rescue 2 said that Lieutenant Lund had constantly sought out the most challenging assignments. They recalled his tireless performance at the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, when he worked 24 hours searching for survivors in the wreckage, slept for 8 hours, and went back to work. Seven men from Rescue 2 were killed in the attack.

"He had an absolutely phenomenal career. Any number of rescues," said Capt. Phil Ruvolo of Rescue 2. "I couldn't start the list where he was a hero."

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A Veteran Firefighter Dies After a Blaze on Long Island (Published 2005)

A retired New York City fire lieutenant who, in a 30-year career, was cited repeatedly for bravery and who tirelessly searched for survivors after the 9/11 attack, died apparently of a heart attack on Tuesday night after putting out a blaze with a volunteer department on Long Island, the...
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