John Berwin - Minneapolis FD

John Berwin, Captain, Ladder 1 - January 10, 1906

Berwin died in action while attempting to rescue a womantrapped by fire on the seventh floor of the West Hotel at Hennepin Avenue South and 5th Street. He was carrying her down a pompier ladder when her hysterical struggled threw them from the ladder. The woman was caught as she fell by Captain Georege Kehoe on a third florr balcony, but Berwin fell seven floors to the street and died instantly.

The above material used with permission from the book “Mill City Firefighters, The First 100 Years 1879 – 1979” by Richard Heath (deceased) and copyright by The Extra Alarm Association of the Twin Cities.