United States Fire Administration
14 March 2024
The United States Fire Administration has announced the death of Captain Roy Franklin Whitt, 72, of the Route 504 Volunteer Fire Department on 12 March 2024.
On Tuesday, March 12, 2024, Captain Roy Franklin Whitt was on his way to escort the body of Elliott County EMS EMT Drake Adams, who died earlier in the day, to a funeral home. Captain Whitt was driving a fire department apparatus southbound on Route 504 when he lost control of the vehicle. He hit a guard rail and traveled down an embankment to the edge of a river. He was pronounced deceased at the scene.
Age: 72
Rank: Captain
Classification: Volunteer
Incident date: March 12, 2024 5:00 p.m.
Date of death: March 12, 2024
Cause of fatal injury: Vehicle Collision – Includes Aircraft
Nature of fatal injury: Trauma
Activity type: Driving/Operating Vehicle/Apparatus
Emergency duty: No
Duty type: Other On-Duty
Fixed property use: Street/Road
The number of on-duty deaths for 2024 currently is 15.
Go here to read the number of interior line of duty deaths for 2024.
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.”
Photograph courtesy of the Route 504 Volunteer Fire Department/Facebook.
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