The exact page text, read by your browser's voice.
THE LINE-OF-DUTY TEST · RESULT NEGATIVE AT THE STRENGTH OF THE RECORD REACHED
The test: The same test that produces the police department's roll in the entry below was run for the fire department: the national fallen-firefighter rolls and fatality coverage searched for a Mishawaka Fire Department name — the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation's Roll of Honor and the fire-service fatality record as published — and the department's own present pages read for a fallen roll of its own.
The result: No Mishawaka firefighter's name appears in the national rolls and coverage the search reached, and the department publishes no roll of its dead on the pages read. That is the result, printed whole: a negative at the strength of the rolls searched. It settles the modern, documented era; it does not reach the volunteer century, whose companies kept their own paper, and a volunteer-era death — at the 1872 fire or any other — is unrecorded in the record reached rather than disproven. Fire Administration fatality databases queried by department, the Indiana fallen-firefighters memorial list, and the department's own records.
The contrast, stated once: The two departments' rolls differ because their records differ: the police department keeps and publishes its roll, name by name, and the next entries carry it; the fire department's silence in the record reached is itself the finding, and it is printed at exactly that size.
Sources:
- National Fallen Firefighters Foundation, Roll of Honor and fallen-firefighter record (searched November 2026) — no Mishawaka Fire Department name returned.
- City of Mishawaka, Fire and EMS department page (read November 2026) — no fallen roll published.