Incident Name: grass fire
Date: 7/xx/1987
Personnel: Therrell E Schilling
Age: 45
Agency/Organization: Pike County, Sunnyhill Volunteer Rural Fire Department, Summit, MiS / McComb, MS
Position: firefighter
Summary: Firefighter Therrell E Schilling collapsed and died from a heart attack while en route to a grass fire near Summit, MS in July, 1987.
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Pike County, Sunnyhill Volunteer Rural Fire Department, Summit, MiS / McComb, MS
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Reports, Documentation, Lessons Learned
- Record from the National Wildfire Coordinating Group’s list of Historical Wildland Firefighter Fatalities 1910-1996
- Year: 1987
- Fire Name/Location: Summit, Mississippi
- Fatalities: 1
- Agency: PVT, Sunnyhill Vol. FD
- Fire Behavior: Grass fire
- Remarks: Heart attack while responding to fire.
- United States Social Security Death Index: Therrell Schilling
- Given Name: Therrell
- Surname: Schilling
- Birth Date: 8 December 1942
- Social Security Number: 425-86-8076
- State: Mississippi
- Event Date: July 1987
- Age: 45
- USFA Memorial Database: Therrell E Schilling and honored at the National Firefighters Memorial in Emmitsburgh, MD
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