DETROIT – The death of a Detroit firefighter earlier this year has officially been ruled as a line-of-duty death.
47-year-old Patrick Trout, a 12-year veteran of the Detroit Fire Department, died Jan. 5 after returning home from a 24-hour shift.
At the time, Executive Fire Commissioner Chuck Simms declared Trout’s death a “presumed line of duty death” pending the outcome of the medical examiner’s final report. He was reportedly injured during his shift…