The U.S. Fire Administration has announced the official on-duty death of Lieutenant John Burns, 50, of the Myrtle Beach Fire Department on December 3, 2014.
Lieutenant Burns was discovered by other firefighters unresponsive in his bed at the fire station early in the morning where he was pronounced deceased from a nature and cause of fatal injury still to be determined. In addition to other duties, Lieutenant Burns had responded to one or more emergency alarms earlier during his shift.
Tribute is being paid to Lieutenant John Burns at http://apps.usfa.fema.gov/firefighter-fatalities/
To date, 82 firefighter fatalities have been reported to USFA in 2014. 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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