FDNY Line of Duty Death
https://www.facebook.com/fireservic...BC2YE9zKyoE8Gd4Cr0uiPV7tG0cHFr0&__tn__=,O,P-RDecember 18, 1926 - LODD
Deputy Chief John O'Hara, 66
FDNY. Brooklyn/Queens. New York
Chief O’Hara died after suffering the effects of smoke inhalation. He had been operating the night before at a four-alarm fire at 257 Water Street in Brooklyn. After his shift ended, he went home and his wife later found him dead.
Deputy Chief John O'Hara, Chief in Charge of Brooklyn and Queens died at his home at 508 Hancock Street, Brooklyn. The night before, he was fighting a four-alarm fire in a rag and wool warehouse at 257 to 259 Water Street, Brooklyn. He came home at 9:30 the next morning and went to bed, refusing breakfast. When his wife came to wake him up for a meeting that night she found him dead in bed. His death was caused by heavy smoke conditions at the fire. With the temperature in the single digits, he was coated in ice for many hours and this is likely to have also contributed to his death. He joined the Brooklyn Fire Department in 1882, which was consolidated with the FDNY in 1898. He was made Deputy Chief in 1909. He was married and the father of six children. (From The Last Alarm, by Boucher, Urbanowicz and Melahn.)
RIP. Never forget.
