United States Fire Administration
3 July 2023
The United States Fire Administration has announced the death of Assistant Chief Jarod F. Kammeyer, 48, of the Noble Township Fire Department on 14 February 2023.
On Sunday, November 1, 2020, Assistant Chief Jarod F. Kammeyer reported to the fire station as stand-by while units responded on automatic mutual aid to a structure fire. While at the station, he contracted COVID-19. On Monday, November 16, 2020, he was admitted to the hospital with severe COVID-19 symptoms.
After being hospitalized for 288 days, he returned home. Assistant Chief Kammeyer was hospitalized again in the fall of 2022. On Tuesday, February 14, 2023, he passed away from multiple organ failure related to COVID-19.
Age: 48
Rank: Assistant Chief
Classification: Paid-on-Call
Incident date: November 1, 2020 10:50 p.m.
Date of death: February 14, 2023
Cause of fatal injury: Exposure
Nature of fatal injury: Covid-19
Activity type: Standby
Emergency duty: No
Duty type: Other On-Duty
Fixed property use: Residential
The number of on-duty deaths for 2023 currently is 39.
Go here to read the number of interior line of duty deaths for 2023.
Fatality status is provisional and may change as USFA contacts State Fire Marshals to verify fatality incident information.
For more information about on-duty deaths as recorded by the United States Fire Administration go to “Firefighter Fatalities in the United States.”
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