The United States Fire Administration (USFA) has received notice of the following firefighter fatality:

Name: Richard Lee Montgomery

Rank: Firefighter

Age: 54

Gender: Male

Status: Volunteer

Years of Service: 15

Date of Incident: 12/31/2008

Time of Incident: 1759hrs

Date of Death: 12/31/2008

Fire Department: Hobo - Big V Volunteer Fire Department

Address: 633 Hwy 4 East, Booneville, MS 38829 (USNG: 16S CD 5568 3914)

Map:

http://www.fidnet.com/~jlmoore/usng/?zoom=13&usng=16SCD55683914...

Fire Department Chief: Randel Livingston

Incident Description: Firefighter Montgomery was at the scene of a working residential structure fire setting up a fan on the front porch for ventilation. After turning and stepping down off of the porch, Montgomery collapsed from an apparent heart attack. Firefighter Montgomery was rushed to Baptist Memorial Hospital – Booneville (16SCD56523615), but all efforts to revive him were unsuccessful.

Incident Location: Residential structure along County Road 4040 (USNG: 16S CD 6633 2051)

Map View:

http://www.fidnet.com/~jlmoore/usng/?zoom=13&usng=16SCD66332051...

Funeral Arrangements: A fireman's funeral was held for Firefighter Montgomery, plus services on 01/03/2009 at McMillan Funeral Home in Booneville. Burial with military and fireman honors followed at Oaklawn Memorial Park in West Booneville.

Memorial Fund Contact and Address: In honor of Firefighter Richard Lee Montgomery, c/o Hobo - Big V Volunteer Fire Department, 633 Hwy 4 East, Booneville, MS 38829.

Tribute is being paid to Firefighter Richard Lee Montgomery at http://www.usfa.dhs.gov/fireservice/fatalities/

To date, 114 firefighter fatalities have been reported to USFA in 2008 as a result of incidents that occurred in 2008 and one from a prior year incident. USFA does not have a Line-of-Duty-Death (LODD) criterion nor does it make LODD determinations. Please note, running totals of firefighter fatalities used on these initial notices do not necessarily reflect the number of firefighter fatalities used in totals for the (provisional) monthly year-to-date USFA firefighter fatality reports, or year-end (provisional) reports posted online (http://www.usfa.dhs.gov/fireservice/fatalities/statistics/ff_stats....). Firefighter fatalities in USFA reports are summarized by date/year-of-incident. Initial notices posted online (http://www.usfa.dhs.gov/fireservice/fatalities/) and distributed via USFA listserve do not represent the final on-duty firefighter fatality determination by USFA for such reports, nor LODD determination made by the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation (http://www.FireHero.org) for names added each subsequent year to the National Fallen Firefighters Memorial at the National Fire Academy in Emmitsburg, MD, they are the beginning of a research process for each firefighter fatality reported so that such determinations can be made.



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