The U.S. Fire Administration has announced the official on-duty death of Lieutenant Michael P. Miller, 45, of the Green Bay Metro Fire Department on June 201, 2015.
Lieutenant Miller was found collapsed on the floor in the fire station near his bunk in the early morning hours of June 20, 2015, and was quickly attended to by other department members who found no vitals signs present. Lieutenant Miller was pronounced deceased in the location found at 04:55AM. Lieutenant Miller was working a 24 hour shift and had responded to his last alarm, an EMS call, several hours earlier. The nature and cause of fatal injury is still to be determined.
Tribute is being paid to Lieutenant Michael P. Miller at http://apps.usfa.fema.gov/firefighter-fatalities/
To date, 46 firefighter fatalities have been reported to USFA in 2015. Year-to-date and annual USFA firefighter fatality reports are posted online at http://apps.usfa.fema.gov/firefighter-fatalities/fatalityData/statistics
Fatality status is provisional and may change as USFA contacts State Fire Marshals to verify fatality incident information.
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