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Chicago Firefighter Steven Decker Dies During Training Exercise in West Rogers Park
The firefighter was a 30-year department veteran, and officials said the cause of the training death was still under review.
- Engineer Steven Decker, a 61-year-old 30-year Chicago Fire Department veteran assigned to Engine 71, died Thursday during a training exercise in West Ridge's 6600 block of North Kedzie Avenue.
- Sources said Decker collapsed during a twice-yearly mandated hose test, prompting fellow firefighters to administer CPR before transporting him to St. Francis Hospital in Evanston.
- Chicago Firefighters Local 2 President Erik Steinmetz praised Decker as someone who "knows everything about the apparatus," while an ambulance carried his body in a more than 10-mile procession with giant American flags raised between crossed ladders over Western Avenue.
- 50th Ward Alderman Debra Silverstein called the death "a devastating loss to Engine 71," while the Chicago Police Department pledged support as first responders stood in salute at the Cook County Medical Examiner's Office after 7 p.m.
- Decker's death marks the department's second loss in recent months, following fourth-generation firefighter Michael Altman's death in March after a Rogers Park apartment fire; officials have not released the cause of Decker's death.
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30-year veteran firefighter dies during training exercise
A Chicago firefighter died Thursday afternoon during a training exercise.
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