After 42 years, DC firefighter whose death helped spark nationwide safety change is honored

WASHINGTON — The traffic flowed as it did on that November morning more than four decades ago — a steady river moving past a place most drivers never notice.

It is the same spot where Denise Steve’s life suddenly, irreversibly stopped. “Forty-two years? That’s a long time,” she thought out loud, standing just steps from where her husband, D.C. firefighter Calvin Steve, was fatally injured in 1983.

This week, the District of Columbia Fire and EMS Department gathered at the corner of Florida Avenue and North Capitol Street to honor Calvin Steve, dedicating a permanent memorial at the site of the accident…

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