USFA: New York On-Duty Death

The U.S. Fire Administration has announced the official on-duty death of Firefighter-Paramedic M. Kent Stillwagon, 52, of the Greelawn Fire Deaprtment on April 17, 2018.

Shortly after responding to numerous calls on the evening of Monday, April 16, 2018, Firefighter-Paramedic M. Kent Stillwagon was found just after midnight at his residence in cardiac arrest. His fellow volunteers and friends from the Greenlawn Fire Department responded and tried valiantly to resuscitate him, but after being transported to Huntington hospital and an extended resuscitation attempt by hospital staff, Firefighter-Paramedic Stillwagon passed away.

Tribute is being paid to Firefighter-Paramedic Stillwagon at http://apps.usfa.fema.gov/firefighter-fatalities/

To date, 27 firefighter fatalities have been reported to USFA in 2018.  Year-to-date and annual USFA firefighter fatality reports are posted online at https://www.usfa.fema.gov/data/statistics/ff_fatality_reports.html

Fatality status is provisional and may change as USFA contacts State Fire Marshals to verify fatality incident information.

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