FDNY Line of Duty Death
January 27, 1945 - LODD
Battalion Chief Anthony Jireck, 68
Battalion 32
FDNY. Brooklyn, New York
Chief Jireck died of smoke inhalation while fighting a four alarm fire at a four story paper factory. The fire had started on the third floor and quickly spread to the adjoining floors. The building contained 4500 tons of paper in 6000 rolls. Chief Jireck collapsed while on the ground floor of the burning building, and was carried out to a waiting ambulance. Chief Jireck died while on the way to Long Island College Hospital.
Battalion Chief Anthony Jireck of Battalion 32 lost his life while fighting a four-alarm fire in a warehouse filled with newsprint. Chief Jireck was on the first floor when he was overcome by the smoke and died enroute to the hospital. He was sixty-eight years old and a member of the Department for over forty years. The fire started on the third floor of the four-story building and spread throughout the structure. Six thousand rolls of newsprint weighing 4,500 tons valued at $247,500 were destroyed. In 1960, Engine 202 and Ladder 101’s new quarters were built on the site of the fire. (From "The Last Alarm" by Boucher, Urbanowicz & Melahn.)
RIP. Never forget.
Proby heroics 1904
E 203 Bn 32 533 Hicks St quarters
