LODD: FF Alfred Wohrman, Beekman FD, Beekman, NY

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New York Firefighter Dies in Accident

Updated: 04-18-2005 02:02:37 PM

NIK BONOPARTIS and JOHN DAVIS 

The Poughkeepsie Journal 

POUGHQUAG -- Local firefighters and others within the Beekman community are mourning the loss of a firefighter who died in the line of duty Sunday. 

Alfred Wohrman, 60, died in an motor vehicle accident while returning from a nearby accident, state police said Monday. Wohrman was a volunteer firefighter and a commissioner with the Beekman Fire Department.

Wohrman was driving west on Route 55 about 9:07 a.m. when the rescue truck he was driving left the north shoulder of the road and struck several trees, state police Sgt. Robert Hogan said. Wohrman was returning from the scene of an accident about a quarter mile east from where he crashed. Members of his department were called off from the earlier accident because it was in the Pawling Fire Department's jurisdiction, Beekman Chief Greg Rayburn said Monday. 

Rayburn called Wohrman, who served for more than 40 years, ``the heart of the fire company.'' 

Firefighters were offered sessions with grief counselors Sunday. 

``It's a very hard, unfortunate situation,'' Rayburn said. ``We're all here for each other, supporting each other.'' 

There were no signs of brake or skid marks where the truck left the road about a mile west of Route 292, Hogan said. Wohrman was transported to St. Francis Hospital in Poughkeepsie, where he was pronounced dead. 

An accident investigation was performed by state police and an autopsy was performed Monday morning. Police were investigating the possibility that a heart condition may have contributed to the accident, but the autopsy could not determine if there was a heart attack because of Wohrman's injuries. The official cause of death was listed as blunt trauma. 

Route 55 was closed for several hours Sunday as police investigated.

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Services for Al Wohrman:

Wake - Viewing Hours at the Horn & Thomes Funeral Home, East Main Street,

Pawling, NY

Tuesday, April 19th from 7pm - 9pm

Wednesday, April 20th 2pm - 4pm and 7pm - 9pm

Funeral - Thursday, April 21st at 11am at the Horn & Thomes Funeral Home

There will be a Fire Company service on Wednesday at the funeral home at

7:30pm.

There will be a service at the funeral home at 11am on Thursday before

proceeding to the Beekman Rural Cemetery

on Church Street where graveside burial services will be held.

All members attending the funeral are requested to meet at the Beekman Fire

Station at 9 am preferably in full dress uniform.

Buses to the funeral home will be available from the Beekman Fire House and

Beekman Town Hall.

The Beekman Fire Department respectfully requests that any neighboring

mutual aid departments and all other departments planning to send apparatus

to the funeral, send one only representing their department.

All apparatus are requested to stage at Pawling Fire Station 1 on Charles

Coleman Blvd, in Pawling at 9:30am.

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After attending this somber funeral, I must say that I was personally touched by the large turnout on this day. I can only estimate that there were upwards of 1,000 firefighters on hand with approximately 100 fire apparatus/vehicles from Dutchess, Putnam and Westchester in the funeral procession. This just proves how we all come together in a time of need.