The name of a Montgomery County firefighter who died after experiencing a medical emergency while responding to a 2025 house fire in Laurel will be added to the National Fallen Firefighters Memorial in Emmitsburg this weekend, according to a press release from the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation.
Lt. Christopher (Chris) Higgins, 46, a master firefighter posthumously promoted to lieutenant, was a 23-year veteran of the Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Service (MCFRS). At the time of his death on Jan. 11, he worked as a firefighter at Station 15 in Burtonsville.
On the night of Higgins’ death, MCFRS crews, including Higgins’ Burtonsville unit, were responding to a mutual aid call for a house fire on Bradford Lane in Laurel. While responding to the blaze, Higgins experienced a medical emergency and collapsed at the scene…