FDNY FF RAYMOND R. MAYR L134 LODD 7/2/1963

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FDNY Line of Duty Death​

July 2, 1963 - LODD
Fireman Raymond R. Mayr, 38
Ladder 134
FDNY. Queens, New York





Fireman Mayr was killed while operating at a four-alarm fire in a vacant icehouse, when it suddenly collapsed.


Fireman Raymond R. Mayr of Ladder 134 was crushed to death when a wall of a vacant icehouse collapsed on him and several other firemen. The four-alarm fire destroyed the wood frame two-story building. (From "The Last Alarm" by Boucher, Urbanowicz & Melahn, 2007)

RIP. Never forget.

 

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FROM:
WRITTEN PERSONAL HISTORY OF THE FDNY IN THE ROCKAWAYS
1961 TO 1976
BY JOHN R.KELLY

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JULY 2, 1963 –TRAGIC DAY FOR LADDER 134 AND ENGINE 328

My dad (John F. Kelly) had now transferred to Ladder 137 on Beach 116 Street and our whole family was attending the annual L.137 and E. 268 Company Picnic at Hempstead Lake State Park, when someone made a phone call back to the firehouse (no cell phones in those days) and was informed that FF. Ray Meyer of Ladder 134 had just been killed in a ice house fire on Redfern Ave. in Far Rockaway (across from the Redfern Projects). Two other fireman from Engine 328 were seriously injured, one was operating a hand line on a portable ladder, dove thru the window and rode the wall down when it fell and a second firefighter was crushed by the falling wall while working on the outside of the building, both firefighters were very seriously injured for the rest of their lives.

WRITTEN PERSONAL HISTORY OF THE