It’s a call no chief of police wants to receive – the call that reveals an officer has been killed in the line of duty. In an ideal world, the answer to the headline of this article would be “no, we ...

Recently, I read an article about the line-of-duty death of FDNY Firefighter Tony Shands of Engine Company 297. The article informed me of his death on October 20, 1984, and how he died as a result of ...

Editors note: We hope that your department never suffers a line of duty death, but we feel it is important for each chief officer to understand the responsibilites to the fallen firefighter and their ...

A federal investigation into the Line of Duty Death (LODD) of a New Jersey career firefighter suggests that the loss of direct communication between an apparatus driver and the firefighter spotting ...