Is Houston Dishonoring a Brother Firefighter?

The Houston Fire Department had another LODD yesterday. This time it was a cadet that while running at the academy last week fell out. He was transported to the hospital where a week later he died. Now for the real tragedy. HFD officials are not treating this as a line of duty death, They didn’t even inform the members of the department about him till hours 10 hours after he passed. This is a sad day in the fire service when a firefighter dies in the LODD and the department refuses to give him the proper service.

What do you all think? If a cadet that dies during training a LODD and should he be giving the proper funeral?

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Permalink Reply by Cody W. Nelson on May 12, 2009 at 12:25am

I can give some insight to this. I live in North West Texas and anythime we have a fatality in Texas, departments form all over the state merge on that location to work for guys that want to go to the funeral or stand and march in the funeral. Houston requested that we send some folks down for this cadets services. We later recieved an email that advised us that the cadets family was requesting a small private funeral. The Austin, Texas Fire Dept was handling the honor guard duties at the request of his family. This firefighter volunteered in that area prior to being hired by Houston. HFD was just honoring the family's request for a small and private funeral.