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Luther Eugene Hurd
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Luther Eugene Hurd

Birth
Waukegan, Lake County, Illinois, USA
Death
29 Nov 1988 (aged 31)
Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri, USA
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Shortly after they arrived on the scene at a highway construction site, six Kansas City firefighters died when two burning trailers loaded with several thousand pounds of a highly volatile ammonium nitrate/fuel oil mixture exploded.

Along with Firefighter Hurd, Captain James Kilventon Jr., Captain Gerald Halloran and Firefighters Thomas Fry, Robert McKarnin and Michael Oldham also died in the blast. In July of 1997, a jury convicted five individuals of setting the fire that caused the explosion. All five were sentenced to life in prison.

Ordinarily Firefighter Hurd worked at Station 23 but volunteered to fill in at Station 30 that night.
Actual burial here
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Shortly after they arrived on the scene at a highway construction site, six Kansas City firefighters died when two burning trailers loaded with several thousand pounds of a highly volatile ammonium nitrate/fuel oil mixture exploded.

Along with Firefighter Hurd, Captain James Kilventon Jr., Captain Gerald Halloran and Firefighters Thomas Fry, Robert McKarnin and Michael Oldham also died in the blast. In July of 1997, a jury convicted five individuals of setting the fire that caused the explosion. All five were sentenced to life in prison.

Ordinarily Firefighter Hurd worked at Station 23 but volunteered to fill in at Station 30 that night.

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