Fallen Firefighter Memorial
Although inspired by the four firefighters who died in the line of duty while fighting a warehouse fire in Seattle's Chinatown International District on January 5, 1995, the Fallen Firefighter's Memorial is a respectful tribute to all Seattle firefighters that have died in the line of duty since the department began in 1889.
The four bronze statues that comprise the memorial have permanent residence in Occidental Park, adjacent to Seattle Fire Department headquarters in downtown's Pioneer Square district.
Hai Ying Wu, an internationally recognized artist from the University of Washington School of Arts, worked with a team of firefighters to design the life-sized figures and sculpt them.
Wu intentionally designed the figures with masked faces noting that they "could be any of the thousands of firefighters who have donned the uniform of the Seattle Fire Department."
Surrounding the figures are slabs of granite intended to depict a collapsed building. Wu inscribed his own words into one of the slabs describing the memorial as "represented realistically yet with exaggerated gestures to emphasize the intensity of the battle in which they are engaged."
The Seattle Fallen Fighters Memorial is a reminder to ourselves and people everywhere, that the members of our firefighting family who have lost their lives protecting the lives and property of others are not, and will not, ever be forgotten.
Herman Larson, 1891
Engineer Charles E. Brabon, 1899
Victor Manhart, 1905
Captain J.N. Longfellow, 1910
Patrick Cooper, 1914
Battalion Chief Fred G. Gilham, 1917
Ole G. Rust, 1917
Peter Coghlan, 1919
Charles F. Lacasse, 1920
Battalion Chief William J. Carr, 1921
Leo Hertel, 1922
Captain Horace E. Roberts, 1923
William E. Shuberg, 1924
Cecil McKenzie, 1925
Darwin T. Lund, 1927
Charles E. Wheeler, 1928
Wilho Koski, 1929
Captain Albert S. Wolpert, 1937
Luther D. Bonner, 1943
Theodore R. Cousland, 1938
Battalion Chief Oscar H. Ebbinghouse, 1939
Captain Andrew G. Beattie, 1945
Fred O. Larson, 1947
Jack W. McGee, 1949
Glen S. Murphy, 1949
James Willey, 1957
John F. Herron, 1964
Captain Harold W. Webb, 1966
Henry C. Gronnerud, 1968
Gerald Miller, 1976
Mary R. Mathews, 1984
Robert D. Earhart, 1987
Lieutenant Mathew W. Johnson, 1989
Lisa J. Long, 1983
Donald L. Perry, 1991
Lieutenant Walter D. Kilgore, 1995
James T. Brown, 1995
Lieutenant Gregory A. Shoemaker, 1995
Randall R. Terlicker, 1995
Gary V. Medica, 1996
Deputy Chief Gerald N. Moberg, 2004
Nathaniel Ford, 2005
James S. Bernard, 2005
Timothy J. Heelan, 2008
Battalion Chief James H. Scragg, 2008
Battalion Chief David H. Jacobs, Jr., 2009
Stephen Lohr, 2009
Deputy Chief Jesse F. Youngs, 2010
Jeffrey Birt, 2011
Jess Hernandez, 2013
Keith I. Johnson, 2014
Wallace F. Goulet, 2014
Joshua Milton, 2015
Tristan Smith, 2016
Scott Steed, 2016
Captain Craig Aman, 2016
Lieutenant Jay G. Wheeler, 2020
Lieutenant Willy Cababat, 2021
Lieutenant Luis I. Batayola, 2021
Michele J. Williams, 2022