Section Three
Presumptive Illness Line of Duty Deaths.
The International Association Fallen Fire
Fighter Memorial Wall Colorado Springs, Colorado
Submitted to the IAFF by the Houston Professional Fire Fighters Association
Local 341
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Total of 155 Firefighters Cassified as an IAFF Presumptive
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September 18, 1990
Chief Inspector Francis Charles
Loos
Cancer: Colon
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July 20, 2020
Captain Leroy Pena Lucio
Cause of Death: COVID-19
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April
8, 2017
Captain Franklin Daniel Maresh
Cancer: Leukemia
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June 24, 2008
Firefighter Michael Allen "Mike"
Mays
Cancer: Renal Cell Carcinoma
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August 10, 2012
Chauffeur Joe Lynn McAdams
Cancer:
Lung
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August 31, 1995
Robert William "Bubba" McCarty
Cancer:
Lung
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December 14, 2008
Senior Captain Clifford Lester "Captain" McClaugherty
Cancer:
Lung
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March 22, 2016
Captain Jackie Ray McDonald
Cancer: Throat
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August 5, 1995
District Chief William Brian McLeroy Jr.
Cancer:
Lung
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January 15, 1983
Captain Joe Merritt McMahon
Cause of Death:
Heart-Aneurysm
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October 10, 2007
Firefighter Jose Slavador "Joe" Mendoza
Cancer:
Liver
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April
10, 2006
Senior Captain James Gordon Miller
Jr.
Cancer: Brain
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March
10, 1994
Batalion Chief Robert Lee "Deacon"
Mize
Cause
of Death: Cardiac Arrest
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August 26, 2019
Senior Captain Anthony Morado Sr.
Cancer:
Bladder
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May
8, 2013
Firefighter John Wade Morris
Cancer:
Pancreatic
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June
15, 2006
Captain Charles Vincent "Charlie"
Musachia
Cancer:
Pancreatic
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July 11, 2010
Chauffeur Dewayne William Norris
Cause of Death: Cardiac Arrest
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August 3, 2020
Firefighter Gerardo Isaias "Jerry"
Pacheco
Cause
of Death: COVID-19
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September 22, 2014
Captain Thomas Doyle "Tommy"
Pierce Jr.
Cancer: Prostate
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August 4, 1985
Senior Captain Charles Edward
Pollett
Cancer: Esophageal
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April 20, 2021
Engineer/Operator Gaston Moises
Popovich
Cancer:
Plasma Cell Neoplasms
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July
5, 2005
Firefighter Jerry Michael "Mike"
Powers
Cancer:
Renal Cell Carcinoma
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December 28, 1994
Chauffeur Charles Elwood Radcliffe
Cancer:
Lymphomatosis
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July
10, 1991
Chauffeur Richard Scott Railsback
Cancer:
Lymphoma
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April
16, 2009
District Chief Kyle Quincy Raney
Cancer:
Lung
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May 16, 2003
Chauffeur Rocco Richard Rao Sr.
Cancer:
Pancreatic
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September
3, 2021
Engineer/Operator Tanner Graham Reed
Cause of Death: COVID-19
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August
17, 2019
Engineer/Operator Kyle Thomas Rice
Cancer:
Stage IV Pancreatuc Adeb Carcubina
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March
19, 2013
Captain Felix Allen Richard
Cancer:
Lung
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February
3, 2014
Firefighter Alton Raymond Ritchie
Cancer:
Lung
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January 4,
2017
Firefighter Marquart Merle Roberts
Cancer:
Multiple Myeloma
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September
17, 1998
Captain Willie Daniel Rodgers
Cancer:
Liver
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December 29, 1993
Benjamin Richard Russo
Cancer: Brain
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November
16, 2018
Arson Investigator Camillo
Anthony Russo
Cancer:
Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma
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March
14, 2011
Firefighter Travis Lynn
Sattiewhite Sr.
Cancer: Lung
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November
13, 2020
District Chief Robert Alfred Schlieter
Cancer: Metastatic Colon
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November
12, 2011
Firefighter Keith Joe Schoenberg
Cancer:
Prostrate
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August 17, 2013
Chauffeur John Washington Scott
Cancer:
Lung
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December 17, 2025
Chauffeur
Stephen Doyle Scott
Cause of Death: Heart Aneurysm
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March 10, 2012
Firefighter Daniel Joseph Search
Cause of Deatg: Cardiac Arrest
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September 8, 2020
Captain Tommy Wayne Searcy
Cause of Death:
COVID-19
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