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Charles “Chad” Cate
Captain
Clallam County Fire District #3
Sequim, WA
Age: 46
Sex: Male
Classification: Career
Years of Service: 29
Date of Incident: Jan. 12, 2023
Date of Death: Jan. 12, 2023
On Thursday, Jan. 12, 2023, at approximately 2:25 a.m., Captain Charles “Chad” Cate returned to the fire station after responding to a fire alarm activation at a commercial building. Later, at approximately 4:00 a.m., after heading back out to the site of an earlier house fire, he texted a fellow captain and the duty chief to state that all was well at the scene. At 7:00 a.m. that same morning, he was discovered deceased in his bunk by members of his crew when they attempted to wake him. The cause of his death has yet to be determined.
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