FDNY Line of Duty Death
https://www.facebook.com/fireservicelineofdutydeaths#January 1, 1955 - LODD
Captain Thomas Herlihy, 65
Ladder 167
FDNY. Auburndale/Bayside Queens, New York
Captain Herlihy was overcome by smoke on December 24, 1954, and later died on January 1, 1955.
Captain Thomas Herlihy of Ladder 167 was overcome by smoke at Box 6909 [Northern Boulevard and Auburndale Road, Queens on December 24, 1954]. At first his death was not considered in the line of duty but on February 9, 1956 the Board of Trustees of the Fire Department Pension Fund determined that it was a Line of Duty Death. He was appointed to the Department on June 1, 1913, promoted to Lieutenant on March 16, 1926 and Captain on December 25, 1934. He served as a Lieutenant of Ladder 167 from 1931 until promoted in 1934. He returned to Ladder 167 on April 1, 1939. He was sixty-seven years old and was born in Ireland. (From "The Last Alarm" by Boucher, Urbanowicz & Melahn, 2007)
RIP. Never forget.
