JOSEPH MICHAEL KIEVERNAGEL
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Officer Rank: Deputy Sheriff
Memorial Panel: 61-E: 24
Department: Sacramento County, California, S.O.
End of Watch: July 13, 2005
Cause: AIRC
Age: 36
Years of Service: 17
Description: Deputy Kievernagel and two other deputies were on a routine patrol mission when their Eurocopter EC 120 experienced a mechanical failure and a fire. Deputy Kievernagel made an emergency landing on a hilly area near Lake Natoma. After the landing, the helicopter's tail end broke off, causing the fuselage to roll downhill. Deputy Kievernagel and Deputy Kevin Blount were killed as the helicopter crashed downhill. The third deputy was critically injured.
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