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Friday, November 6, 2009

Asst. Fire Chief Dies of Heart Attack

Derry (Pa.) Volunteer Fire Department First Assistant Chief Alphonse Vincent Germano, Jr., 60, died Dec. 15 of an apparent heart attack. He had more than 18 years of service. Germano returned from responding to an automatic fire alarm when the company was dispatched to a residential fire. Germano stayed behind with a stand-by crew and worked communications then assisted servicing apparatus when it returned from the house fire. Shortly thereafter, fellow firefighters found Germano in cardiac arrest in the firehouse kitchen. Firefighters immediately initiated CPR, and called for paramedics. Germano was transported to the hospital where he died. ...

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