Ex-Hoseman Thomas W. Burnham, age 69, badge no. 51, Engine Co. 2, home address 213 Oxford Street, died as a result of being badly burned two days earlier at a General Alarm fire at Box 3-64, at Sturdivant Wharf.  He was a Call Man, whose full-time occupation was Cabinetmaker.  He resigned from the Department in 1877 after 21 years of service, but was apparently pressed into service to help fight the fire. 

Hoseman Clarence A. Johnson, age 47, badge no. 41, Engine Co. 3, home address 232 Brackett Street, died as a result of being badly burned 27 days earlier at the above incident, on April 26, 1903.  He was a Call Man, whose full-time occupation was Brick Mason.

Hoseman Charles W. Barrett, age 41, badge no. 5, Engine Co. 1, home address 182 Grant Street, died as a result of an electrical shock of heavy voltage at a still alarm at the Congress Square Hotel, 579-581 Congress Street, at 7:15 PM.  He was a Permanent Member of the Fire Department, who had given his resignation effective October 1st.  He agreed to stay on-duty until his replacement could report on-duty October 4th.  He was returning to the occupation of Sheet Metal Worker, to be home more to care for his sick and invalid wife and their six children, all under 11 years of age.

Deputy Chief William H. Steele, age 46, Fire District 1, home address 9 Myrtle Street, died at 9:00 PM as a result of inhalation of nitric acid fumes from a carboy spill in the basement of H.H. Hay’s Drug Store, at Middle and Free Streets, at a Still Alarm, at 8:45 AM.

 Lieutenant Ralph H. Eldridge, age 36, badge no.136, Chemical Co. 1, home address 109 Pearl Street, died at 4:00 AM as a result of inhalation of nitric acid fumes at the above incident at H.H. Hay’s Drug Store at Middle and Free Streets on January 1, 1913.

Hoseman Harry E. Harmon, age 41, badge no. 130, Engine Co. 6, home address 491 Portland Street, died from pneumonia as a result of exposure to smoke at a two-alarm fire at Box 2-64, Royal Remedy Company, 432 Commercial Street on March 7, 1913. He was a Call- Man, whose full-time occupation was Driver for W.H. Thaxter Company (grain dealers).

Ladderman Ralph E. Smith, age 31, badge no. 197, Ladder Co. 4, home address 252 Woodford Street, died shortly after 6:00 PM at Saint Barnabas Hospital on Woodford Street, as a result of multiple injuries he received from being thrown off the ladder carriage between the horses and carriage to the street, when the wheels caught in the trolley tracks on Stevens Avenue near Pleasant Avenue in Central Square at Deering Center, while responding to a still alarm, at 100 Revere Street, for a report of a shed fire at 8:40 AM, caused by children playing with matches.

Captain James C. Kent, age 60, badge no. 112, Engine Co. 6, home address 19 Sherman Street, died at 2:10 PM as a result of injuries suffered at a General Alarm fire at Box 3-921, Deering High School, 522 Stevens Avenue.  Captain Kent was swept from a ladder and buried beneath bricks, as the roof collapsed, knocking out the cornice at the front-center of the building.

Electrical Division Lineman John M. Hardy, age 24, home address at

1446 Forest Avenue died shortly before 8:00 PM at Maine General Hospital of a head injury, resulting from a fall from a ladder 8 hours earlier at 85 Spring Street, while changing fire alarm wires on a building.

Private Edward F. Fowler, age 33, badge no. 81, Chemical Co. 1, home address 85 Market Street, died at home of chronic bronchitis, an illness of more than two years, as a result of cold and exposure to smoke at a General Alarm fire at Box 4-1291, at Winslow Pottery Company, 253 Forest Avenue, on October 24, 1927.  He had not been on full-duty since the fire.

Lieutenant Walter M. Jackson, age 47, badge no. 36, Engine Co. 1, home address 125 Pearl Street, died at Maine General Hospital of Heart Disease.  He had been taken to a hospital for exposure to smoke at a three-alarm fire, at Box 3-43, at the Sacknoff Block, 147 Commercial Street, at the corner of Silver Street on February 21, 1932, and had not returned to duty since the fire.

Private Walter P. Webster, age 56, badge no. 32, Ladder Co. 5, home address 180 Pearl Street, collapsed and died shortly after 1:31 PM of a heart attack, resulting from overexertion while on the roof of a building at a two-alarm fire, at Box 2-814, at # 2b Monroe Place.

Private Thomas L. Walsh, age 39, badge no. 78, Engine Co. 8,

home address 349 Woodford Street, was killed shortly after 2:00 AM, when he was crushed beneath a brick wall, which fell out as the result of an explosion, while fighting a three-alarm fire, at Box 3-922, at the Stevens Avenue Armory, at 780 Stevens Avenue.

Captain Frank J. Mullins, age 62, badge no. 2, Engine Co. 1, home address 55 Morning Street, descended an aerial ladder, then collapsed and died from a heart attack, while fighting a single-alarm fire at Box 325, at 17 Cove Street, shortly after 10:16 PM.

Captain John E. Tolan, age 47, badge no. 10, Engine Co. 6, home address Sterling Street, Peaks Island, died shortly after 9:33 AM, while fighting a two-alarm fire, at Box 2-917, at 96 Highland Street.  The cause of death was determined as “heart ailment aggravated by smoke inhalation and asphyxia.”

Private Thomas G. O'Connor, age 43, badge no. 53, Ladder Co. 3, home address 249 Vaughan Street, died at Maine Medical Center in the afternoon as a result of multiple injuries he suffered from a collision between Ladder 3 and Engine 4, at the intersection of Brackett and Spring Streets, at 6:03 PM the previous day.  Both trucks were destroyed when responding to a still alarm at 14 Orchard Street to check on a report of smoke in the area.

Lieutenant William E. Nugent, Jr., age 47, badge no. 44, Engine Co. 1, home address 25 Sawyer Street, died in the morning of a heart attack.  He was hospitalized on July 25, 1970 as a result of smoke inhalation at a two-alarm fire at Box 2-52, at 45-49-51 Parris Street, with three buildings on fire.  He had not returned to full-duty since the fire.

Captain John F. Rafferty, age 59, badge no. 5, Rescue Co. 1, home address 13 Eastern Promenade, collapsed and died in Rescue 1 after 12 AM, while returning to quarters from Maine Medical Center, after transporting a teenage girl from an emergency call at 31 Kellogg Street.

Firefighter Joseph C. Cavallaro, Jr., age 26, badge no. 143, Engine Co. 1, home address 24 Jordan Avenue, South Portland, died shortly after 2:31 AM, as a result of burns and asphyxiation, while fighting a three-alarm fire at Box 3-53, at the Phoenix Nightclub, 83 Oak Street.

Firefighter Frank E. Cowan, age 44, badge no. 246, Ladder Co. 1, home address 6 Autumn Lane, Yarmouth, died at home of a heart attack.  He had previously suffered a heart attack on January 5, 1993, at a two-alarm fire at Box 2-622, at the Kabob-N-Curry Restaurant, at 629 Congress Street during ventilation operations on the roof.  He had returned to full duty March 9th.