About the Author of the Houston Fire Department Memorial Web Site

 
Scott Mellott HFD-Service-November 24, 1974 to May 2, 2006

I recently retired from the Houston Fire Department after 31 years of service.  I am a self proclaimed personnel historian of the Houston Fire Department.  I concentrate on the history of Houston Fire Fighters from 1895 (when Houston became a paid department) to the present.  

In 1987 became involved with the line of duty history of the department and did an 8 month long research project to obtain information on all of our line of duty Fire Fighters.   After eight months of painstakingly looking through miles of microfilm, tons of books and lots of cemetery records, the project was finally completed.  I was able to find a couple of Fire Fighters that have been left off of HFD's official list and was able to correct many details that through the years have been left out.  This information was prepared for the 1988 HFD Yearbook. 

The Houston Fire Department now has an accurate record of all of its firefighters who have died in the line of duty from the fire department's inception in 1895.  This list can guarantee that the firefighters who risk their lives every day of their career will never forget these men and women.

   
My Memorial information was included in the 1988, 1995, and the 2000 Houston Fire Department Yearbooks. The last Houston Fire Department Yearbook
produced which was due out in 2005 and came out almost in 2008 was in my opinion was a total disaster and I was very fortunate to be Excluded from this publication-thank you Emily Ponte.

If you or a collector of these type of books (the Houston Fire Department also produced yearbooks for 1971 and 1977, a good source for these books would be a web site called Fire Collector.  www.firecollector.com 

 There are some details that have not been obtained. I are still looking for relatives and pictures of some of these fire fighters. If you have information on any of these fire fighters or comments on this site, please email me.                                                                                                   

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                                                                                                                   Use of the materials on this Web Site

Here is the deal on the information on this site. Most of the information I have on the Line of Duty Fire Fighters is obtain from newspaper accounts of the incident. As far as my pictures are concerned I have obtained pictures that have not been available through extensive research. If you have a need to down load any picture all you need to do is let me know.