Incident Name: a fire near Beaty Cove in Bledsoe County, TN
Date: 3/28/1986
Personnel: Robert Kenneth Bell
Age: 44
Agency/Organization: Tennessee Division of Forestry
Position: firefighter, heavy equipment operator
Summary: On March, 28 1986, Robert Kenneth Bell died of a massive myocardial infarction while plowing fireline with a tractor plow near Beaty Cove in Bledsoe County, TN. Ken served as a Forestry Aide 2 at the Summer City Fire Tower.
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Beaty Cove, Bledsoe County, TN
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Reports, Documentation, Lessons Learned
- TN DOF: Heart attack on fireline, Bledsoe County, TN
- Note: There is no Brief historical record from the NWCG [Historical Wildland Firefighter Fatalities 1910 – 1996 (408 K pdf)] Records this far back can be incomplete.
- United States Social Security Death Index: Robert Bell
- Given Name: Robert
- Surname: Bell
- Birth Date: 5 July 1941
- Social Security Number: 414-62-9220
- State: Tennessee
- Event Date: March 1986
- Age: 45
- Find a Grave Index Information: Robert Kenneth Bell
- Name: Robert Kenneth Bell
- Event Type: Burial
- Event Date: 1986
- vent Place: Pikeville, Bledsoe, Tennessee, United States of America
- Photograph Included: Yes
- Birth Date: 05 Jul 1941
- Death Date: 28 Mar 1986
- Affiliate Record Identifier: 30091533
- Cemetery: Rigsby Cemetery
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Photos, Videos, & Tributes
- Tennessee Fallen Firefighters Memorial: Robert Kenneth Bell
- Photos of Ken Bell’s headstone at Find a Grave
- USFA Memorial Database: Robert Kenneth Bell
Contributors to this article: David Fiorella
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