USFA On-Duty Death: Oklahoma

United States Fire Administration
4 December 2025

The United States Fire Administration has announced the death of Fire Chief Jim McCoy, 60, of the Alderson Fire Department on 1 November 2025.

Fire Chief Jim McCoy was providing fire department standby for a drag racing event when a collision caused a vehicle to leave the racetrack, striking Fire Chief Mccoy and a police officer, killing them both.

Age: 60
Rank: Fire Chief
Classification: Volunteer
Incident date: Nov. 1, 2025 12:15 PM
Date of death: Nov. 1, 2025
Cause of fatal injury: Struck By
Nature of fatal injury: Trauma
Activity type: Standby
Emergency duty: No
Duty type: Other On-Duty
Fixed property use: N/A

The number of on-duty deaths for 2025 is currently 71.

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.”

Photo courtesy of Chaney-Harkins Funeral Home.

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