FDNY Line of Duty Death
June 26, 1964 - LODD
Fireman Ernest J. Marquart, 33
Squad 3
FDNY. Bedford - Stuyvesant, New York
Fireman Marquart died from injuries he received while operating at fire at the corner of Myrtle Avenue and Walworth Street. He was caught and pinned in a collapse of the ceiling. He was recovered from the building and transported to the hospital where he was pronounced dead.
Fireman Ernest J. Marquart of Squad 3 lost his life while fighting a four-alarm fire in an abandoned school. The three-story brick building that was built in 1856 and was abandoned by the Board of Education in 1960. The members of Squad 3, on the third floor, were pulling ceilings down when a large section of it collapsed, trapping them. Fireman Marquart was pinned under the ceiling. He was pulled out and a doctor performed an emergency tracheotomy on him before he was taken to the hospital where he was pronounced dead. Fireman Marguart was thirty-three years old and lived at 109-41 115th Street, Richmond Hill, Queens. (From "The Last Alarm" by Boucher, Urbanowicz & Melahn, 2007)
RIP. Never forget.
June 26, 1964 - LODD
Fireman Ernest J. Marquart, 33
Squad 3
FDNY. Bedford - Stuyvesant, New York
Fireman Marquart died from injuries he received while operating at fire at the corner of Myrtle Avenue and Walworth Street. He was caught and pinned in a collapse of the ceiling. He was recovered from the building and transported to the hospital where he was pronounced dead.
Fireman Ernest J. Marquart of Squad 3 lost his life while fighting a four-alarm fire in an abandoned school. The three-story brick building that was built in 1856 and was abandoned by the Board of Education in 1960. The members of Squad 3, on the third floor, were pulling ceilings down when a large section of it collapsed, trapping them. Fireman Marquart was pinned under the ceiling. He was pulled out and a doctor performed an emergency tracheotomy on him before he was taken to the hospital where he was pronounced dead. Fireman Marguart was thirty-three years old and lived at 109-41 115th Street, Richmond Hill, Queens. (From "The Last Alarm" by Boucher, Urbanowicz & Melahn, 2007)
RIP. Never forget.
