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Name: Bill Matthews
Rank: Fire Chief
Age: 73
Gender: Male
Status: Volunteer
Years of Service: 7
Date of Incident: 02/14/2017
Time of Incident: 1645hrs
Date of Death: 02/14/2017
Fire Department: Bassfield Volunteer Fire Department
Address: 194 Gen. Robert E. Blount DR POB 100, Bassfield, MS 39421
Fire Department Chief: Pending
Incident Description: Fire Chief Matthews was found unconscious in the driver’s seat of the fire apparatus he was operating on the scene of a brush fire working to protect a nearby church. According to news reports, when another firefighter on a hoseline asked the Chief to reposition the apparatus, there was no response. Fire Chief Mathews was immediately removed from the truck, given CPR, and then transported to Jefferson Davis Community Hospital where he was pronounced deceased. According to a statement from the Coroner, the nature of fatal injury was a massive heart attack.
Incident Location: Behind the church on Graves Keys Road in Bassfield
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