The U.S. Fire Administration has announced the official on-duty death of Pump Operator/Paramedic Alejandro Castro, 40, of the Brownsville Fire Department on November 16 2014.
Pump Operator/Paramedic Castro was found unresponsive while on-duty inside of Brownsville Fire Station 8. Castro had succumbed in the fire station to a nature and cause of fatal injury still to be determined.
Tribute is being paid to Pump Operator/Paramedic Alejandro Castro at http://apps.usfa.fema.gov/firefighter-fatalities/
To date, 77 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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