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DC Firefighters
Memorial Helmet Project
The DC Fire & EMS Department has lost 102 firefighters in the line of duty since 1856. There is currently no memorial in the District of Columbia honoring these firefighters’ ultimate sacrifice. The DC Firefighters Memorial Helmet Project memorializes every DC firefighter who died in the line of duty with the installation of memorial helmets and plaques on streetlights at the locations of their ultimate sacrifice. You can read their stories here.
To see a map of the locations, click on the LODD Locations box here.
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See media coverage about the project here.
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We also support the DC Fallen Firefighters’ Memorial Project, which is dedicated to erecting a permanent memorial in honor of the Firefighters’ lives that have been lost in the line of duty.
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This project is a partnership between:
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Roll of Honor: the members of the Fire and Emergency Medical Services Department who made the supreme sacrifice in their service to the citizens of the District of Columbia.
1800s
John G. Anderson
March 20, 1856
Benjamin C. Grenup
May 6, 1856
Thomas H. Robinson
February 15, 1877
Joseph Daniels
August 18, 1882
Thomas R. Newman
February 20, 1891
Zedock Williams
December 12, 1893
Samuel E. Mastin
July 25, 1894
Michael R. Fenton
July 25, 1894
Dennis O'Donoghue
July 25, 1894
Thomas J. Martin
June 3, 1895
Thomas A. Griffen
May 18, 1896
Daniel Conway
May 18, 1896
George W. Kettler
May 18, 1896
George H. Giles
May 18, 1896
Joseph Mulhall
May 18, 1896
John G. Angell
August 12, 1896
John A. Merriman
March 4, 1897
1900s
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Martin J. Niland
July 2, 1900
Charles A. Keefe
February 7, 1901
Arthur H. Gibbons
October 15, 1904
Simon A. McLane
June 1, 1905
Joseph H. McGinnis
November 15, 1905
William T. Belt
December 13, 1908
Francis M. Smith
January 10, 1909
1910s
William Caton
February 14, 1910
Stewart K. Rosenberger
July 27, 1910
Lee Beall
June 17, 1911
Michael A. Downes
October 14, 1911
Timothy J. Brown
October 14, 1911
Fred Koch
November 10, 1916
Charles A.E. Watt
December 18, 1916
Simon F. Holohan
December 28, 1917
William H. Richards
October 11, 1918
Frank O. Markward
October 12, 1918
William T. Byram
October 15, 1918
Frederick W. Cheeney
October 18, 1918
Thomas A. Bianco
October 23, 1918
John F. Farr
December 29, 1918
Charles B. Proctor
December 29, 1918
1920s
James L. Mann
August 27, 1925
Edward F. Laughton
March 2, 1926
James Mowatt
March 18, 1927
Harry L. Stout
June 22, 1927
Samuel L. Gallahan
July 26, 1927
Albert J. Greiner
October 27, 1928
1930s
Harry W. Swann
May 26, 1930
Peter R. Davis
June 13, 1930
John H. Virnstein
July 5, 1931
Maurice P. Corbett
February 19, 1932
Robert G. Anderson
February 23, 1933
Myron W. Thayer
October 18, 1934
Patrick J. Sullivan
December 18, 1934
Albert F. Gavreau
November 29, 1936
William H. Hill
December 3, 1936
Vernon C. Richardson
March 10, 1937
Walter W. Imboden
March 29, 1938
Twyman S. Jones
April 11, 1938
Charles E. Schrom
February 27, 1939
Gilbert W. Fletcher
January 16, 1937
George N. Haller
April 5, 1939
Samuel T. Walters
July 30, 1939
1940s
Raymond E. Oden
July 28, 1943
John R. Gray
October 4, 1940
Everett L. Owens
July 28, 1943
Thomas S. Baber
December 6, 1944
Dewey W. Neill
December 24, 1944
Maurice T. Hizer
February 11, 1945
William E. Caton
November 2, 1943
Earl O. Negley
December 27, 1946
Lloyd A. Irwin
December 4, 1947
Leon M. Nevitt
December 30, 1947
Edward G. Williams
August 15, 1949
Joseph A. Carter, Jr.
July 4, 1944
Albert E. Mitchener
September 29, 1947
1950s
Ernest W. Howard
May 4, 1950
Preston T. Garrison
April 21, 1955
Allen Lewis
September 20, 1952
Albert M. Hazel
March 15, 1956
Barton M. Ewers
November 2, 1954
William W. Hoeke
July 19, 1957
Millard F. Coxen
December 19, 1954
George R. Flaherty
February 24, 1955
1960s
James B. Curtin
October 30, 1960
Joseph I. Looney
November 13, 1961
William E. Schaffner
March 21, 1962
Charles M. Chamberlin
March 1, 1965
Eugene B. Davis
April 29, 1965
1970s
Earl C. Kite
January 7, 1970
Joseph R. Criscuolo
October 20, 1970
Vance T. Bartley
February 15, 1971
Maurice T. Turner
June 26, 1971
Hunter L. Vaughan
November 21, 1976
1980s
Calvin L. Steve
November 23, 1983
John T. Williams
December 19, 1984
Clifford R. Oliver
December 1, 1987
1990s
John M. Carter
October 24, 1997
Anthony S. Phillips, Sr.
May 30, 1999
Louis J. Matthews
May 31, 1999
Costello N. Robinson
July 9, 1999
2000s
James McRae, III
July 7, 2007
2010s
Kevin A.McRae
May 6, 2015
Alex D. Graham
October 27, 2019
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