ME Fire Lieutenant Suffers Fatal Cardiac Arrest after Call

A Maine firefighter suffered a fatal cardiac arrest hours after a call Tuesday, according to the U.S. Fire Administration.

Jackson Fire Lt. Harold “Eddie” Moore Jr., 42, had responded to a residential blaze Tuesday afternoon, the USFA stated in an alert. When he returned home that evening, he suffered the medical emergency and died.

After his death, Moore, a 25-year veteran of the fire service, tested positive for COVID-19, the department’s fire chief told Bangor Daily News. His death makes him one of the state's youngest victims of the virus.

Moore’s wife, a certified nursing assistant at Tall Pines in Belfast, was one of the employees who tested positive for COVID-19 during an outbreak at the facility. She had gone home to quarantine herself, and Moore had joined her.

While quarantined for more than three weeks, Moore suffered mild COVID-19 symptoms. That included losing his sense of taste, and smell.