Line of Duty Deaths
Dennis Swenson, EMT
Age: 62
Hometown: Cornucopia, WI
End of Service: May 1, 2015
Birth: December 31, 1952
EMS Services: South Shore EMS
Bayfield County, WI: LODD, Dennis Swenson went back into a burning house to rescue his own mother from the fire. Both parished in the blaze.
Darren Bean, M.D. and EMS Medical Director
Age: 37
Hometown: Hazelhurst, WI
End of Service: May 10, 2008
Birth: December 4, 1970
EMS Services: UW Med Flight Surgeon, Medical Director
Medical helicopter crash after transporting a patient.
Mark Coyne, RN Flight nurse.
Age: 53
Hometown: Madison, WI
End of Service: May 10, 2008
Birth: July 29, 1954
EMS Services: UW Med Flight
Medical helicopter crash after delivering a patient.
Steve Lipperer, Pilot
Age: 34
Hometown: Madison, WI
End of Service: May 10, 2008
Birth: September 17, 1968
EMS Service: Air Methods pilot operating for UW Med Flight.
Gregory L. Rosenthal, Flight Medic
Age: 43
Hometown: Minocqua, WI
End of Service: Friday, April 26, 2018.
Birth: October 11, 1974
EMS Service: Ascension Health Flight Paramedic - LODD
Klint Kody Mitchell, Flight Nurse
Age: 30
Hometown: Watersmeet, Michigan.
End of Service: Friday, April 26, 2018
Birth: December 24, 1987
EMS Service: Ascension Health as a Flight Nurse.
Rico Caruso, Pilot
Age: 34
Hometown: Hazelhurst; WI
End of Service: Friday, April 26, 2018
Birth: October 5, 1983 in CA
EMS Service: Air Methods Pilot/Ascension
Jaime Jaenke, Paramedic
Age: 29
Hometown: Bay City, WI
End of Service: June 5, 2006
Birth: 1977
EMS Service: Ellsworth, WI and United States Navy
Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class killed June 5, 2006 as a result of enemy action when her Humvee was struck by an improvised explosive device in Anah, Iraq.
Matthew Mark Deicher, EMT/FF
Age: 47
Hometown: Mosinee, WI
End of Service: September 23, 2017
Birth: July 9, 1970
EMS Service: Mosinee Fire and Ambulance
A Wisconsin EMT/firefighter who was paralyzed in a 2003 ambulance crash has died of complications from his injuries in 2017.
Stanley Phillips III, MD
Age: 32
Hometown: Madison, WI from Cathedral City, CA
End of Service: July 11, 2013
Birth: May 19, 1981
EMS Service: University of Wisconsin Medical Center in Madison, Wisconsin
He died after a Meriter Hospital ambulance carrying him crashed in 2013
