A Dayton Firefighter will be permanently memorialized at the National Fallen Firefighters Memorial in Emmitsburg, MD, on Sunday, May 3, 2026.
Roderick W. Longpre died on Oct. 14, 2020, from occupational cancer, and his death has been classified as a line-of-duty death.
Longpre had a distinguished career, serving in the U.S. Army and later with the Dayton Fire Department. The National Fallen Firefighters Foundation subsequently classified his occupational cancer death as a line-of-duty death…