By Amy Renee Leiker
The Wichita Eagle
WICHITA, Kan. — Funeral services for Wichita firefighter Ty Voth will take place at 10 a.m. Friday at Park City Arena, formerly Hartman Arena, the city said Monday.
A viewing will be held at 9 a.m. Friday, prior to the funeral, at the arena, 8151 N. Hartman Arena Drive in Park City.
Memorial information and other details are pending, the city announced in a news release.
Voth died in the line of duty Thursday after responding to a house fire in Haysville. The 27-year-old collapsed while on scene and died after being taken to a hospital. His exact cause of death is pending.
Voth was responding to the fire with a crew on Engine 19 that was assigned to attack the fire.
In a news conference last week, Wichita Fire Chief Tammy Snow said firefighters went into the house “and extinguished the majority of the fire, a pretty significant fire up in the roof area. They were redeploying their line. They pulled it outside. They got to the porch. There was a little bit of a mop-up that he and his crew were going to extinguish, and that was when he succumbed to his injury.”
Snow called Voth a hero in both life and death.
He was a five-year veteran of the Wichita Fire Department .
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