FDNY Line of Duty Death
July 4, 1924 - LODD
Fireman James J. Murphy, 32
Engine 69
FDNY. Manhattan, New York
Fireman Murphy died from the injuries he sustained while operating in quarters. He was doing hose inspection and had fallen into the hose pit. He was dead upon arrival of the ambulance.
Fireman James J. Murphy #3, on "floor watch" at the quarters of Engine 69, at 248 West 143rd Street, was inspecting hose when he fell to the bottom of the hose pit, breaking his neck. He was dead when Dr. Berson of Harlem Hospital arrived. Murphy was thirty-two years old and lived with his wife and two children at 300 West 113th Street. (From "The Last Alarm" by Boucher, Urbanowicz & Melahn, 2007)
RIP. Never forget.
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