Some tragic news out of Los Angeles... A firefighter died Monday morning, two days after he fell from a fire engine's aerial ladder during a training exercise in downtown Los Angeles.
Firefighter, 29, dies 2 days after fall from aerial ladder in downtown Los Angeles
29-year-old Kelly Wong was participating in an exercise Saturday morning when he fell several stories from an aerial ladder on to a fire truck, suffering numerous blunt force trauma injuries. He was transported to a local trauma center where he was listed in critical condition.
The Los Angeles Fire Department announced Wong's death on Twitter in a written statement.
The LAFD is heartbroken to share the tragic news of the loss of one of our members, Firefighter Kelly Wong details=https://t.co/sIaQ8QSnQz pic.twitter.com/3L6s9HRVlk
— LAFD Talk (@LAFDtalk) June 5, 2017
Wong was a two-year veteran of the LAFD and was assigned to Fire Station 92 in Rancho Park at the time of his passing. He was scheduled to transfer to Fire Station 9 serving Downtown and Skid Row on June 12 and was working at that station at the time of the accident.
On Monday morning, Los Angeles motorcycle officers escorted a caravan of LAFD vehicles and a coroner's van carrying Wong's body in a procession from L.A. County USC Medical Center to the coroner's office.
An memorial fund has been set up on behalf of the Wong family.
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