{"id":4100,"date":"2018-12-31T09:29:51","date_gmt":"2018-12-31T14:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/?p=4100"},"modified":"2018-12-31T09:30:56","modified_gmt":"2018-12-31T14:30:56","slug":"warsaw-fire-chief-killed-on-duty-december-31-1949","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/warsaw-fire-chief-killed-on-duty-december-31-1949\/","title":{"rendered":"Warsaw Fire Chief Killed on Duty – December 31, 1949"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Here’s the front page of the Duplin Times<\/em> from January 5, 1950, which includes a story on the death of Warsaw Fire Dept Fire Chief Stacy H. Britt, 38, who died in the line of duty in an apparatus collision on December 31, 1949. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can read the entire issue at this digital North Carolina newspapers page<\/a>. Just click through to the correct issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chief Britt is one of two NC firefighters remembered by the North Carolina Fallen Firefighters Foundation on their Facebook page<\/a> today. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also on December 31, in 1969, Greensboro Fire Department Firefighter Jesse C. Gray died in the line of duty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alas, no free digital archives are available (that Legeros can find) for the Greensboro News & Record<\/em>. But their archives are available<\/a>, with paid access.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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