Beacon Falls CT LODD

[Medic One]

Beacon Falls firefighter dies while responding to call

Department treats passing as line-of-duty death

BEACON FALLS -- A longtime firefighter died in the line of duty early Wednesday while responding to a call.

Fire Captain Kevin Swan, 69, a firefighter with Beacon Hose Company No. 1, woke around 5 a.m. to respond to a fire call on Susan Street, said Jeremy Rodorigo, a Beacon Hose spokesman.

Swan signed on the radio, but did not show up at the call. He was found around 8 a.m. inside his pickup in his driveway, Rodorigo said.

He was taken by ambulance to Griffin Hospital in Derby, where he was pronounced dead shortly after 9 a.m., he said.

Fire officials are still trying to detemine exactly what happened, Rodorigo said. The department is treating it as a line of duty death, he said.

[DwayneEMTP]

God's speed to him and strength and peace to those that loved him....

Dwayne

[Richard B the EMT]

Condolences to his family, and his extended departmental family.