JOHN EUGENE GALVIN
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Officer Rank: Lieutenant
Memorial Panel: 11-W: 22
Department: Wichita, Kansas, P.D.
End of Watch: November 4, 2000
Cause: BOMB
Age: 49
Years of Service: 20
Description: Lieutenant Galvin and the bomb squad were participating in a training exercise to destroy 1,500 pounds of three-year old fireworks. While unloading the fireworks into a pit, something triggered an explosion on the transport truck, and all of the fireworks ignited. Lieutenant Galvin received second and third-degree burns over 80 percent of his body. He was transported to a local hospital where he died of his injuries two weeks later. Sergeant Douglas B.Manning was injured in the explosion.
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