FDNY Line of Duty Death
https://www.facebook.com/fireservic...1tugmnGcBjSjks7z5qj1wPrJ5CojnAM&__tn__=,O,P-RJanuary 15, 1905 - LODD
Captain James L. Haviland, 64
Engine 257
FDNY. Brooklyn, New York
Captain Haviland was killed when he fell down a pole hole in quarters while on duty.
Foreman James Haviland, sixty-four years old, of Engine 157 (now Engine 257), died from injuries received in the firehouse. Saturday was the Foreman’s day off, and he returned to the engine house in the morning while the company was at a Brownsville fire. They were cleaning their apparatus after their return when they were startled by the sound of a body falling through the pole hole. It was their Foreman, and he was unconscious. His skull was fractured, he had a broken leg and died without regaining consciousness. Foreman Haviland could have retired on a pension years before and he said he would do so when his daughter graduated from the Training School. He lived at 139 Cornelia Street. (From "The Last Alarm" by Boucher, Urbanowicz & Melahn, 2007)
RIP. Never forget.
