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Name: Rodney Eddins
Rank: Lieutenant
Age: 57
Gender: Male
Status: Career
Years of Service: 30
Date of Incident: 04/16/2016
Time of Incident: 2334hrs
Date of Death: 04/17/2016
Fire Department: Memphis Fire Department
Address: 65 S Front Street, Memphis, TN 38103
Fire Department Chief: Memphis Fire Director Gina Sweat
Incident Description: While operating at the scene of a residential structure fire, Lieutenant Eddins collapsed from a nature of fatal injury still to be determined. Fellow firefighters removed Lieutenant Eddins from the structure and rushed him to Methodist South Hospital in critical condition where he succumbed to his injury. Fire crews determined the blaze started from a malfunctioning portable fan in the bedroom. There was not a working smoke alarm in the house, but two adults and four children at the home were uninjured.
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