FDNY Line of Duty Death
https://www.facebook.com/fireservic...2N9jNi2hm2wed9AZvAVgkvnLpmPwXOA&__tn__=,O,P-RJanuary 1, 1945 - LODD
Lieutenant Joseph A. Joyce, 45
Engine 40
FDNY. Manhattan, New York
Lieutenant Joyce was overcome by smoke while operating at an apartment fire at 150 W. 66th street, and died as a result. This was his first fire as a Lieutenant, as he was promoted a few hours earlier. He and his crew were fighting a fire on the third floor of the building. The fire was attributed to a short circuit in Christmas tree lights that the occupant of the apartment had just plugged in a few minutes earlier. Lieutenant Joyce was a seventeen-year veteran of the department.
Lieutenant Joseph E. Joyce reported to work at Engine 40 as a new Lieutenant. At 9:30 that evening, Lieutenant Joyce responded to fire in a third floor apartment. The fire was started by a short circuit when the Christmas tree lights were turned on. Engine 40 led by Lieutenant Joyce entered the fire apartment only to be driven out by the heavy smoke condition. Once in the hall Lieutenant Joyce was discovered missing, his men reentered the apartment and found him unconscious. Working over him with an inhalator for over an hour was to no avail and he was pronounced dead. Lieutenant Joyce was forty years old and had been in the Department for seventeen years. (From "The Last Alarm" by Boucher, Urbanowicz & Melahn, 2007)
RIP. Never forget.
