BACK ON JANUARY 18 FIREGEEZER REPORTED (HERE) on the untimely death of the Nicol (Alabama) Fire Chief who became mortally ill while working a rescue scene in a town devastated by tornadoes.

Chief Steven Sullivan was a co-founder of the Nicol VFD and was the only man who had been the department’s chief.  He was exposed to a lengthy period of especially foul weather while searching the tornado wreckage and was hospitalized soon after where he died six days later.

The department had helped his widow apply to the state for a line of duty death benefit.  The current chief of the department has written to us with some good news:

Jackie Sullivan, widow of Steven Allan Sullivan, former Fire Chief of the Nicol Volunteer Fire Department who passed away in January of 2008 shortly after assisting at a neighborhood disaster, received a line of duty benefit payment from the State of Alabama recently. Many thanks to Senator Phil Poole who contacted me a while back and wanted to know what was being done for the survivors and I advised him that the status at that time was not good.  Senator Poole took things in hand and got the benefits for the Sullivan family.
…… Chief Gaston Wilson, Nicol VFD.

Chief Sullivan and the famous “Dalmation Chicken”

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