United States Fire Administration
2 September 2025
The United States Fire Administration has announced the death of Lieutenant Brian Hatt, 51, of the Raywick Fire Department on 25 August 2025.
On August 22, 2025, Lieutenant Brian Hatt was driving a fire department pumper as he was responding to a mutual aid call. During the response, the vehicle veered out of control, hit an embankment, and overturned. Lieutenant Hatt was ejected from the vehicle as it rolled. Lieutenant Hatt was flown by helicopter from the scene and transported to a hospital where he passed away on August 25, 2025, from the injuries sustained in the accident. Another firefighter who was a passenger in the vehicle was also flown by helicopter to a hospital with serious but non-life-threatening injuries.
Age: 51
Rank: Lieutenant
Classification: Volunteer
Incident date: Aug. 22, 2025 5:17 PM
Date of death: Aug. 25, 2025
Cause of fatal injury: Vehicle Collision – Includes Aircraft
Nature of fatal injury: Trauma
Activity type: Driving/Operating Vehicle/Apparatus
Emergency duty: Yes
Duty type: Responding
Fixed property use: Street/Road
The number of on-duty deaths for 2025 is currently 56.
Go here to read the number of interior line of duty deaths for 2025.
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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