FDNY Line of Duty
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Lieutenant Joseph M. Oesau, 61
Engine 277
FDNY. Upper West Side, Manhattan. New York
Lieutenant Oesau died after collapsing while operating at a fire alarm at Brooklyn Box 5-5-1642.
Lieutenant Joseph M. Oesau of Engine 277 died while fighting a five-alarm fire in a row of stores on Pitkin Avenue. Lieutenant Oesau heard that three employees were trapped in one of the stores.
He went in through a wall of flames and was heard shouting; “I’ve got to get out of here!” He collapsed, was dragged outside and worked on for over an hour but never regained consciousness. He was going to retire six months before, after putting in thirty years in the Department, but told his wife that he had nothing to do and put in one more year. He was sixty-one years old.
(From "The Last Alarm" by Boucher, Urbanowicz & Melahn, 2007)
RIP. Never forget.
E 277 previous quarters
WWI US Army Veteran
