Incident Name:
Date: 7/6/98
Personnel: Tulon Lee Goodwin
Age: 51
Agency/Organization: Alabama Forestry Commission, Montgomery, Alabama
Position: firefighter
Summary: On 7/6/98 Firefighter Goodwin — a career forestry worker and firefighter — had been plowing a fireline for about 4 hours when he was stricken with a heart attack and died. The fire was caused by children playing with bottle rockets.
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Alabama Forestry Commission, Montgomery, Alabama
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Reports, Documentation, Lessons Learned
- Tulon Goodwin’s name, death date and brief bio are included in the USFA Firefighter Fatality Retrospective Study, published April 2002 (2,888 K pdf)
- NIOSH Report: Forestry Worker Dies While Bulldozing a Fire Line at a Wildland Fire – Alabama
- US Social Security Death Index: Tulon Goodwin
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Wildlandfire.com Links:
Media Articles and Reports
Photos, Videos, & Tributes
- USFA Memorial Database: Tulon Lee Goodwin
- The USFA database reports the incident date as 07/05/98, in contrast to the NIOSH Report.
- Alabama Fallen Firefighters list: 1998, Tulon Lee Goodwin
- Alabama Fallen Firefighters Memorial, located at the Alabama Fire College in Tuscaloosa, AL
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