Kyle Wilson Walk For Fitness
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Firefighter Kyle Wilson died on April 16, 2007, a little more than two weeks before STATter911.com appeared on the scene. Wilson’s death in a house fire in Prince William County would very likely have been the top story of that day, but it barely made the news due to the first shootings in the massacre at Virginia Tech occurring an hour or so later. In the following days I pushed, as I am sure people at other news organizations did, to make sure Kyle Wilson’s story got on the air in some form.
That experience, where we couldn’t give a line of duty death of a firefighter the coverage it deserved, is something that helped convince me to move ahead with the blog. I felt, and still feel, least it would be an outlet for this and other fire news that might not make it on TV.
Thursday of next week will be the second anniversary of Kyle Wilson’s death. On Saturday, April 18 the second annual Kyle Wilson Walk for Fitness will be held. Here’s how my friend, Battalion Chief Tim Taylor, describes the event:
Kyle Wilson was a career firefighter who gave his life while searching for occupants of a burning residential structure fire on the morning of April 16, 2007. Kyle was twenty-four years old and had been employed by the Prince William County Department of Fire and Rescue for sixteen months when he lost his life. Kyle graduated from George Mason University in 2005 with a degree in athletic training.
Kyle’s devotion to fitness and athletics are the driving force behind his parent’s determination to create an athletic scholarship endowment fund in his name at George Mason University. The walk is the main funding event to create the endowment.
