The fallen, named: the roll tested whole, and the result is a documented negative

TESTED NOVEMBER 2026 · NFFF ROLL + INDIANA MEMORIAL + THE DEPARTMENT'S OWN RECORD

The test, run as ordered and shown: the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation Roll of Honor (firehero.org) was searched for the Clay Fire Territory under its present and predecessor names and for the Harris Township Fire Department; the Indiana memorial record — the Indiana Law Enforcement and Firefighters Memorial in Indianapolis, opened 2001, its names carried on thirty-three granite and bronze panels — was searched against the same departments; Clay Fire Territory's own Department History and annual reports were read for any memorial, honor-guard, or last-alarm passage; and the open web was searched on the exact strings "Clay Fire Territory" line of duty death and "Harris Township" fire department Indiana line of duty death. Result: no line-of-duty death is recorded for the Clay Fire Territory, for the Clay Township Fire Department before it, or for the Harris Township Fire Department, on any of the three records, in the whole span the rolls cover. The roll is empty, and the emptiness is the finding, printed at its true size: a department organized in 1947, running some 4,800 calls a year by 2018 across 52 square miles, has never buried one of its own from a line-of-duty death on the national or state record. The near-hit is printed to prevent the miscount it invites: Captain Adam "Pugsley" Kuspa's NFFF entry belongs to the Elkhart Fire Department, where he served from 2006 and rose to captain; his career began as a Portage Township explorer and included part-time work at Warren Township, Clay Fire Territory, and Notre Dame — but he did not die in Clay's service, and his name is not a Clay entry. The neighboring names the 2021 Indiana memorial ceremony added — South Bend's and Elkhart's — are likewise other departments' dead, not this territory's. Should a pre-roll township death exist, the settler is the Indiana State Fire Marshal's fatality file and the department's own personnel record; on every open roll, the answer is none.