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George J. Lieb, 86, a retired Philadelphia Fire Department captain, died of cancer on Sunday in Bryn Mawr Hospital. Before moving to Springfield, Delaware County, in 2001, Mr. Lieb had lived in Southwest Philadelphia since 1954. A spokesman for the Fire Department said yesterday that Mr. Lieb was appointed on June 1, 1947; promoted to lieutenant on Nov. 25, 1957; made captain on Jan. 13, 1964; and retired on Sept. 6, 1988. A son, George Jr., said that as an instructor at the Philadelphia Fire Academy in the early 1960s, Mr. Lieb "trained some of the people who later became fire commissioners . . . and lots of chiefs.

Albert E. Marriott, 84, a Philadelphia fire captain who was hailed as a hero for risking his life to save an infant from a burning house, died of pneumonia Wednesday at Immaculate Mary Home. He was a longtime resident of Northeast Philadelphia. On the night of Jan. 3, 1947, Capt. Marriott was relaxing in his home with his family when a rapidly spreading fire started at 3034 N. Orianna St., which was across the street from his house. Knowing that a woman and her three children lived there, Capt.

A Philadelphia fire captain was suspended for 30 days without pay for "musing" in an e-mail about ways to get minority recruits around an application deadline. But Capt. Troy K. Gore's actions and subsequent punishment apparently won't stand in the way of a promotion and $8,000 pay increase. Gore's suspension will cost him about $6,300 out of his $75,513 annual salary. It's the highest penalty Fire Commissioner Lloyd Ayers said he could give, short of firing. Gore was placed on paid leave March 6 pending an investigation into a Feb. 28 message to fellow members of Club Valiants, the city organization representing African American firefighters.

Joseph T. Gibbs, 76, a city fire captain who so enjoyed his years on the job that he remained a leader in fire safety even after he retired, died Saturday at Hahnemann University Hospital. Mr. Gibbs was a resident of the city's Tacony section until he moved to Avalon, N.J., 14 years ago. During a career of nearly 22 years with the Philadelphia Fire Department, Mr. Gibbs worked at stations in several parts of the city, starting with Engine 17 at fire headquarters and moving on to Fishtown and Fox Chase before his assignment with Engine 36 and Ladder 20 in Holmesburg.

Louis D. Campanaro, 69, a retired captain in the Philadelphia Fire Department who also worked for the city school district, died Thursday, July 19, at Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center in Camden. He died of multiple organ failure caused by septic shock, said his son Louis J. Campanaro. Mr. Campanaro joined the Fire Department in 1962 and retired in 1983, his family said. He helped battle the 11-alarm 1975 Gulf Oil refinery fire, which resulted in the deaths of eight firefighters.

A Philadelphia fire captain was suspended for 30 days without pay for "musing" in an e-mail about ways to get minority recruits around an application deadline. But Capt. Troy K. Gore's actions and subsequent punishment apparently won't stand in the way of a promotion and $8,000 pay increase. Gore's suspension will cost him about $6,300 out of his $75,513 annual salary. It's the highest penalty Fire Commissioner Lloyd Ayers said he could give, short of firing. Gore was placed on paid leave March 6 pending an investigation into a Feb. 28 message to fellow members of Club Valiants, the city organization representing African American firefighters.

Mayor Street told a contingent of black firefighters who gathered yesterday outside City Hall to protest the firing of an African American fire captain that he would not circumvent the Fire Department's grievance procedure and restore him to duty. "I'm going to let the process work," Street said after meeting with about 50 members and supporters of Valiants Inc., the organization challenging the dismissal of Capt. Asa Grimes on charges that he tried to coerce two subordinates into certifying a paramedic intern they believed was inept.

A veteran Philadelphia fire captain died Saturday night fighting a three-alarm fire in a Queen Village fabric store when the roof of the three-story building collapsed beneath his feet. The collapse - followed by the subsequent collapse of a second-floor roof and two walls - trapped Capt. Michael Goodwin, 53, inside the burning building, officials said. A second firefighter, Andrew Godlewski, suffered burns to his hands trying to rescue Goodwin before the second collapse. Dozens of firefighters at the scene on South 4th and Fitzwater Streets saluted as the body of Goodwin, a 29-year veteran of the department, was carried out on a stretcher.

Camden firefighters took a ride around the neighborhood on Engine 7 yesterday morning when tempers started heating up at the city's busiest firehouse, at Mount Ephraim and Kaighn Avenues. The trouble started at 10 a.m. when a man who was blocking the firehouse driveway with his car and sounding the horn told Robert Zieniuk, a fire captain who had asked him to move on, that he would sooner "stick my pistol in your face. " Zieniuk said the man unleashed a barrage of obscenities and racial remarks and reached for the glove compartment after making the threatening remark about the gun. The fire captain said he quickly returned to the firehouse, ordered the doors closed and called the police dispatcher for help.

A makeshift memorial at a Kensington firehouse is growing in tribute to two firefighters killed in yesterday's horrific five-alarm warehouse blaze. The burning and collapse of the Thomas W. Buck Hosiery building off Kensington Avenue in Philadelphia left Lt. Robert P. Neary, 60, and Daniel Sweeney, 25, dead. Neary was a 37-year veteran of the department and was close to retirement. Sweeney was the son of a retired fire captain. People began leaving flowers, portraits, and stuffed animals last night and this morning at the fire Castor and Kensington Avenues building housing Ladder 10 where Neary and Sweeney were based.

The Philadelphia firefighters union on Wednesday announced the establishment of the Capt. Michael Goodwin Memorial Fund to honor the firefighter who died April 6 in the line of duty. "We vowed to Mike's family, as we have to all families who have lost a loved one in the line of duty, that we will always stand by them and take care of them. This is the first formal step in that ongoing process," said Bill Gault, president of the International Association of Fire Fighters Local 22. Goodwin, 53, died battling an intense blaze at a fabrics warehouse in South Philadelphia.

Philadelphia Fire Capt. Michael Robert Goodwin Sr. was mourned Thursday in the small neighborhood church where he attended Bible school, exchanged marriage vows, and brought his children to be baptized. Goodwin, 53, was killed Saturday fighting a fire on Fabric Row in South Philadelphia. His colleagues said he died living out his personal credo: that those who have earned positions of authority should lead by example and not dispatch others to do the hard work. Dozens of childhood friends already had filled the curved wooden pews of St. Michael's Lutheran Church in Kensington when Goodwin's mother, Elizabeth, arrived for the service.

A veteran Philadelphia fire captain died Saturday night fighting a three-alarm fire in a Queen Village fabric store when the roof of the three-story building collapsed beneath his feet. The collapse - followed by the subsequent collapse of a second-floor roof and two walls - trapped Capt. Michael Goodwin, 53, inside the burning building, officials said. A second firefighter, Andrew Godlewski, suffered burns to his hands trying to rescue Goodwin before the second collapse. Dozens of firefighters at the scene on South 4th and Fitzwater Streets saluted as the body of Goodwin, a 29-year veteran of the department, was carried out on a stretcher.

Chicago Fire (10-7-5, 35 points) at Union (7-11-2, 23 points) When: Sunday, 7 p.m., PPL Park. TV: TCN; Radio: WIP-AM (610). Coaches: Union, John Hackworth (5-4); Chicago: Frank Klopas (18-12-15). Chicago on the road: 3-5-3; Union at home: 5-4-1. Goals for: Chicago, 25; Union 22; Goals against: Chicago 24; Union 24 . Last game: The Fire defeated visiting Toronto, 2-1, on Aug. 4; The Union lost, 2-0, at Montreal on Aug. 4. Last meeting: Chicago beat the Union, 1-0, in the Fire's home opener on March 24. About the Fire: With 10 wins, the Fire have exceeded their victory total of last season, when they went 9-9-16.

Louis D. Campanaro, 69, a retired captain in the Philadelphia Fire Department who also worked for the city school district, died Thursday, July 19, at Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center in Camden. He died of multiple organ failure caused by septic shock, said his son Louis J. Campanaro. Mr. Campanaro joined the Fire Department in 1962 and retired in 1983, his family said. He helped battle the 11-alarm 1975 Gulf Oil refinery fire, which resulted in the deaths of eight firefighters.

IT HAS BEEN a while now since Danny Watkins worked as a firefighter, back home in British Columbia, but the fire hall will always be a big part of his identity. One of the first things Watkins did when he arrived last year from Baylor after being drafted by the Eagles in the first round was make friends in the Philadelphia firefighting community. One of the best friends Watkins made, Fran Cheney, from Ladder 10, was injured in the April 9 fire at the former Buck Hosiery factory in Kensington, a blaze in which Philadelphia Fire Lt. Robert Neary and firefighter Daniel Sweeney died.

It was just after 3 in the morning on June 20, 2007, when a mammoth orange glow lit up several blocks of rickety Kensington rowhouses. The first residents to realize that the abandoned factory at H Street and Westmoreland was ablaze scurried in nightclothes down their steps, thumping their fists against plaster walls, bellowing, "Fire! Fire!" to stir their neighbors. The flames in the city-owned building leaped so high and wide that Ivette Olivera woke up from the sweltering heat that turned her bedroom into an oven.

A makeshift memorial at a Kensington firehouse is growing in tribute to two firefighters killed in yesterday's horrific five-alarm warehouse blaze. The burning and collapse of the Thomas W. Buck Hosiery building off Kensington Avenue in Philadelphia left Lt. Robert P. Neary, 60, and Daniel Sweeney, 25, dead. Neary was a 37-year veteran of the department and was close to retirement. Sweeney was the son of a retired fire captain. People began leaving flowers, portraits, and stuffed animals last night and this morning at the fire Castor and Kensington Avenues building housing Ladder 10 where Neary and Sweeney were based.