The U.S. Fire Administration has announced the official on-duty death of Engineer Jeffery Atkinson, 43, of the Tallahassee Fire Department on December 15, 2017.
Engineer Jeffery Atkinson died while on-duty at the fire station from a nature and cause of fatal injury still to be determined.
Tribute is being paid to Engineer Atkinson at http://apps.usfa.fema.gov/firefighter-fatalities/
To date, 85 firefighter fatalities have been reported to USFA in 2017. Year-to-date and annual USFA firefighter fatality reports are posted online at https://www.usfa.fema.gov/data/statistics/ff_fatality_reports.html
Fatality status is provisional and may change as USFA contacts State Fire Marshals to verify fatality incident information.
