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Yellow PagesApr 6, 2008
Families come together to honor lost firefighters
“I guess you can say it's bittersweet”
It's been 76 years since her father, Fordham Odell, died in the line of duty as a volunteer firefighter, and Alyce Odell Brown still remembers the doctor saying her dad only had a sprained back.
Odell, 50, died three days after he suffered a heart attack while fighting a fire in 1932 on Cleveland Street in North Bellmore for the Smithville South Hook, Ladder and Engine Company. But it took some research from active firefighters and an in-law, whose hobby is genealogy, to find Odell's family members. Read more
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