Section Five
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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January 6, 2011
Firefighter Leonard Stephens
Cancer:
Lung
Colorado Springs IAFF Fallen
Firefighter Memorial Wall-2015

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January
11, 1991
Senior Captain Ruben Leon Stubblefield
Cancer: Pancreatic
Colorado Springs IAFF Firefighter Memorial Wall-2020
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April 27, 2010
Firefighter Randy Bill Surratt
Cancer: Hodgkin’s
Colorado Springs IAFF Firefighter Memorial Wall-2010

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September
8, 1962
District Chief Robert Allen “Slim” Templeton
Cause of Death:
Cardiac
Colorado Springs IAFF Firefighter Memorial Wall-2015

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January
4, 2011
Captain Anthony Joseph Tortorice
Cancer: Lung
Colorado Springs IAFF Firefighter Memorial Wall-2013

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Remember to Never Forget
December
11, 2011
Firefighter Jimmy Doyle Ussery
Cancer: Glioblastoma
Multiforme/Brain
Colorado Springs IAFF Firefighter Memorial Wall-2015

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Never Forget
January
14, 2016
Firefighter Rudolph Valentino “Rudy” Valdez
Cancer: Kidney
Colorado Springs IAFF Firefighter Memorial Wall-2017
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March
29, 2012
Chauffeur Melvin Mitchell Wallace Jr.
Cancer: Prostate
Colorado Springs IAFF Firefighter Memorial Wall-2017

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Never Forget
July 30, 2003
District Chief Ed. Ludwig “Ed”
Walther
Cancer: Brain
Colorado Springs IAFF Firefighter Memorial Wall-2015
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September
4, 2013
Captain John Henry "Butch" Warden III
Cancer:
Pancreatic
Colorado Springs IAFF Fallen
Firefighter Memorial Wall-2017
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May 25, 2010
Chauffeur Dennis Byrn Waters
Cause
of Death: Heart
Disease
Colorado Springs IAFF Fallen
Firefighter Memorial Wall-2010

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January 31, 2009
Firefighter Rodney Dale Waters
Cause of Death:
Overexertion
Colorado Springs IAFF
Fallen Firefighter Memorial Wall-2010
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January
21, 2022
Fire Chief Danny Dean Watkins
Cause of Death:
COVID-19
National Fallen Fighter Memorial Wall in
Emmetsburg Maryland-2022
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to Never Forget
January 12, 2017
Firefighter
Larry Gene Webb
Cancer: Small Cell Carcinoma Metastatic
Colorado Springs IAFF Firefighter Memorial Wall-2023

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to Never Forget
March 26, 1999
Captain Doyce Edsol “Dipper” Wedgeworth
Cancer: Lung
Colorado Springs IAFF Firefighter Memorial Wall-2017

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to Never Forget
July 20, 1989
District John William Wedgeworth Sr.
Cancer: Head
and Neck Carcinoma
Colorado Springs IAFF Firefighter Memorial Wall-2018
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May 10, 2018
District
Chief Phillip Jeffery Wedgeworth
Cancer: Aden Carcinoma of the Lung and Bone
Colorado Springs IAFF Firefighter Memorial Wall-2020
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Remember to Never Forget
June 13, 2016
Senior Captain Riley Lee
Wedgeworth III
Cancer: Squamous Cell Carcinoma
Colorado Springs IAFF Firefighter Memorial
Wall-2017
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January
19, 2007
Firefighter
Larry Anthony Wesley
Cancer: Leukema
Colorado Springs IAFF Fallen
Firefighter Memorial Wall-2015

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May 18,
2002
Captain Jim "Iron Man" Wheeler
Cancer: Esophageal
Colorado Springs IAFF Fallen
Firefighter Memorial Wall-2018
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March
31, 2016
Cadet Stephen Reid Whitfield II
Cause
of Death Cardiac Arrest
Colorado Springs IAFF Fallen
Firefighter Memorial
Wall-2017

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January
21, 2014
Chauffeur Mark Ferris Williamson
Cancer:
Colon
Colorado Springs IAFF Fallen
Firefighter Memorial Wall-2016

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July 13, 2022
Firefighter Malcomb Sherrod Willis
Cause of Death: Cardiac Arrest
Colorado Springs IAFF Fallen
Firefighter Memorial Wall-2023

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June 28, 2008
Chauffeur Scott Stewart Winterhalter
Cancer:
Lung
Colorado Springs IAFF Fallen
Firefighter Memorial Wall-2017
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March 26, 2005
District Chief Paul Clayton Wright
Cancer:
Lung
Colorado Springs IAFF Fallen
Firefighter Memorial Wall-2017

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January 22, 2010
Firefighter Charles "Chuck" Joseph Zinnante
Cancer:
Sinus
Colorado Springs IAFF Fallen Firefighter Memorial Wall-2017