In 2004, Whitechapel station firefighters Bill Faust and Adam Meere became the first London firefighters to die in the line of duty in more than a decade.
Faust, 36, and Meere, 27, were fatally injured at an eight-pump fire on Bethnal Green Road in East London on July 20, 2004. They died at Royal London Hospital.
Meere had joined the bridage a few months earlier.
The fire in the three-story structure was reported at 4 a.m. ``The firefighters got into difficulty in the lower part of the building where the fire was most severe,'' the BBC reported.
The men, both wearing breathing apparatus, were pulled from the flames by their colleagues, but it was too late.
In 1993, a firefighter died in Willesden in north London.
Faust, 36, and Meere, 27, were fatally injured at an eight-pump fire on Bethnal Green Road in East London on July 20, 2004. They died at Royal London Hospital.
Meere had joined the bridage a few months earlier.
The fire in the three-story structure was reported at 4 a.m. ``The firefighters got into difficulty in the lower part of the building where the fire was most severe,'' the BBC reported.
The men, both wearing breathing apparatus, were pulled from the flames by their colleagues, but it was too late.
In 1993, a firefighter died in Willesden in north London.
