NACOGDOCHES, Texas — Nacogdoches firefighters are mourning the loss of a devoted team member after Captain Joe Ed Ivy, 51, died suddenly early Saturday morning from a possible heart attack.
The local brotherhood of firefighters remembered him as one of the toughest and most loved public servants in the city, a dependable traditionalist who spent 33 years in the Nacogdoches Fire Department.
Ivy died at about 2 a.m. Saturday at Clear Lake Regional Medical Center in Webster, near Houston, where he and four other captains were attending a high-rise fire training session.
As captain of a ladder truck at Fire Station 1 on North Street, Ivy was training to lead firefighters into blazes that could occur at local university buildings and industrial structures.
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