Robert Johnson

Location	Mahopac Falls, NY
Date of Death	7/5/2009
Full Story	July 5, 2009 Robert Johnson, a seventeen year volunteer with Mahopac Falls Volunteer Fire Department, passed away from a head injury he received from a fall while retrieving SCBA from fire apparatus during a fire safety demonstration at the Pine Grove Nursery School in Mahopac. The fire department reported that the cause of the fall is unknown; Johnson went around to the far side of the apparatus to get the air-pack and, when he did not return, was discovered by other firefighters unconscious on the ground. Firefighter Johnson was treated on-scene and transported to the hospital. However, he never regained consciousness and succumbed to his injury approximately nine months later. He died on July 5, 2009. Funeral arrangements: calling hours are from 1900-2100hrs 07/07/2009, from 1400-1600hrs and 1900-2100hrs 07/08/2009 at Joseph J. Smith Funeral Home, 692 U.S. Route 6 in Mahopac. A Mass will be held at 0945hrs, 07/09/2009, at St. John the Evangelist Church, 221 E. Lake Blvd., followed by interment at noon at Rose Hills Memorial Park in Putnam Valley. Memorial donations may be made to Toys for Tots, Putnam-Westchester chapter, c/o Bill Lewis, 44 Somerset Lane, Putnam Valley, NY 10579.

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