LAST -- Pensacola Firefighter Killed in this Manner, Pensacola, FL - Last of its Kind on Waymarking.com

After Pensacola Firefighter Vista S. Lowe was killed when he was accidentally run over by the fire truck was assigned to as it was backing up at a fire, changes were made within the Pensacola fire department to ensure that no fire apparatus would be backed over another firefighter again. Those policy changes have worked, making firefighter Vista Lowe the last firefighter in Pensacola to have died in this manner.

The marker reads as follows:

"FIREFIGHTER VISTA S. LOWE

At this site on September 30, 1962, Firefighter Vista Spencer Lowe, age 23, died in the line of duty while responding to a house fire at 409 East Zarragossa Street. Upon arrival at the scene, Firefighter Lowe stepped from the rear tailboard of the pumper he was riding (Engine 5, a 1957, 1,000-gallon Seagrave Pumper Truck), tripped and fell to the ground. Dnaware of Lowe’s location, the pumper’s driver began backing his truck, trapping Lowe under the truck and crushing him. Lowe was the third firefighter with the Pensacola Fire Department (PFD) and the 33rd Florida firefighter to lose his life in the line of duty. Lowe’s death caused the PFD to change its rules and regulations governing standard operating procedures and training methods, requiring that no fire apparatus be backed up at any time without a department member directing traffic. As a result of these changes, no firefighter with the PFD has since died in the manner in which Firefighter Lowe lost his life in 1962.

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