FDNY Line of Duty Death
June 5, 1929 - LODD
Fireman Louis Lubcker, 48
Engine 50
FDNY. Bronx, New York
Fireman Lubcker died after he suffered a fatal heart attack while performing evolutions at the training school. He collapsed after running up seven stories to the roof with a hoisting line.
Fireman Louis Lubcker was a victim of a heart attack while attending the Fire College (East 68th Street). At the time was taking part in “Evolution 17,” the hoisting of a thirty-five foot ladder to the roof of a building. Fireman Lubcker’s role was to carry the hoisting line to the roof. The members were being timed in competition for the fastest company to perform all twenty-two evolutions. He collapsed after running up seven stories to the roof. Dr. Archer attended to him and was taken to Bellevue Hospital where he died an hour later of an apparent heart attack. Fireman Lubcker was forty-eight years old and lived at 350 East 166th Street. (From "The Last Alarm" by Boucher, Urbanowicz & Melahn, 2007)
RIP. NEVER FORGET.
