“It’s emotional,” he said of the “really nice” annual remembrance of Wisconsin’s fallen firefighters. “You get to meet other people that have the same ties, and some that don’t have the same ties. It gives us all a chance to just sit and remember.”

Executive Order #222 will be in effect from sunrise to sunset on Sunday, May 5, 2024, Saturday, Sept. 28, 2024, and Saturday, Oct. 12, 2024.

Previously, National Fallen Firefighters Memorial Weekend had been held in October, but in 2023 it was moved from October to May by the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation.

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According to the May 3, 1979 issue of the Lake Geneva Regional News, Zenda resident Leedle was operating a pump truck at the fire scene when he collapsed from a heart attack. Leedle, a longtime department veteran dating back to the 1960s, was taken to Lakeland Hospital in Elkhorn by the Lake Geneva Rescue Squad and was reportedly revived enroute, but went into cardiac distress and died at 12:25 a.m. according to then Walworth County Coroner John T. Griebel.

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The nonprofit Wisconsin Fire & EMS Memorial, located in Ben Hanson Park at 2031 2nd Ave. S. in Wisconsin Rapids, is dedicated to honoring the service and memory of Wisconsin firefighters who have died in the line of duty. Memorialized from Walworth County is fallen longtime Linn Fire Department firefighter Ronald William Leedle, 45, who passed away of a heart attack during an April 26, 1979 total loss residential structure fire in Zenda, Town of Linn.

“It (firefighting) was always on my mind and close to my heart — volunteering and giving back to the community, just like my father did,” Leedle said of joining Raymond Fire & Rescue, recalling his years growing up living next to the old Linn Fire Department station in Zenda as a kid. “I was quite involved with him when he would go on calls and stuff as I got to be a teenager. Went on calls with him, actually.”

With volunteer fire departments across Wisconsin and the nation struggling to recruit volunteers to answer emergency services calls in thousands of communities, second generation volunteer firefighter Leedle encourages people to consider volunteering with their local fire department.

On Saturday, Sept. 28, 2024, the Wisconsin Fire & EMS Memorial (https:\www.wfem.org) in Wisconsin Rapids will hold the Final Alarm Ceremony honoring the memory of members of Wisconsin fire services who have given their lives in the line of duty from 1860-Present.

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A U.S. Navy veteran of the Korean War and a plant supervisor at Shutters, Inc. in Zenda, Leedle was born April 26, 1934 in Chicago, the son of Clarence and Velda Leedle. Active in the community as a Cub Scout and Boy Scout leader and Little League coach among other activities, Leedle was survived by his wife, Rheta Lasch Leedle (1937-2001), sons Kevan and Kurt, and a daugther, Karen. A funeral service was held at St. Benedict Catholic Church in Fontana, with burial at St. Andrew’s Cemetery in Delavan.

As a mark of respect for the professional and volunteer firefighters of Wisconsin who have given their lives in the line of duty, including one fallen Linn Fire Department firefighter, Gov. Tony Evers on May 2 signed Executive Order #222, ordering the U.S. and Wisconsin flags to be flown at half-staff on Sunday, May 5, 2024.

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Kevan Leedle followed in his father’s footsteps, both in the U.S. Navy and in the Wisconsin volunteer fire service, currently serving as first assistant fire chief, firefighter and advanced emergency medical technician for the Raymond Fire & Rescue Department in Racine County at Franksville in the Village of Raymond.

“It was a shock,” Leedle recalled of his father’s line of duty death in hometown Zenda. “It was unbelievable. I got a call from my mother ... I made a few phone calls, got a couple approvals. The Navy was really good to me. I was able to get off and get home that next morning.”

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Executive Order #222 also orders the flags to be flown at half-staff on Saturday, Sept. 28, 2024, in honor of that occasion.

Honored from Walworth County on the Wisconsin Fire & EMS Memorial is fallen firefighter Ronald William Leedle, 45, of the Linn Fire Department, who passed away in a line of duty death on April 26, 1979 during a total loss 9:30 p.m. residential structure fire at 100 Linn Rd., Zenda. The Lake Geneva Fire Department provided mutual aid at the fire, which subsequently rekindled twice at 1:23 and 3:47 a.m. the following day.

To that end, Executive Order #222 order flags to be lowered on Saturday, Oct. 12, 2024, in honor of Wisconsin Firefighters Memorial Day during Fire Prevention Week.

“People should get back to giving to the community,” he said. “Like John F. Kennedy said, don’t ask what you community can do but what you can do for your community. It’s as important today as it was back then.”

Last year, for the first time, Leedle participated in the Final Call Ceremony at the Wisconsin Fire & EMS Memorial in Wisconsin Rapids, reading his father’s name at the memorial program.

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An engineer by education and profession, earning his degree from the Milwaukee School of Engineering after working in advanced electronics on close-in weapons systems in the Navy, Leedle has been a volunteer with Raymond Fire & Rescue since 2001. He retired from the Fluid Power Group of Oak Creek-based Elwood Corp. after 23 years in August 2023, serving as general manager from 2001-2016, and as vice president-general manager from 2016-2023.

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“Our firefighters are brave and dedicated individuals who show up for us and our communities on some of our worst days and in dangerous situations to help keep us safe, sacrificing their health and safety when they do,” Evers said. “Today and throughout the year, it is important for us as Wisconsinites to pay our respects to firefighters who’ve lost their lives and made the ultimate sacrifice in the line of duty, as well as to the loved ones who miss them and mourn their loss every day. During National Fallen Firefighters Memorial Weekend, Kathy and I join Wisconsinites in honoring the memories of all those we have lost and remember them for their lives of service and sacrifice.”

Graduated from Big Foot High School in Walworth, Kevan Leedle was 18 and stationed with the Navy at Naval Station Great Lakes at Great Lakes, Ill., north of Chicago, at the time of his father’s line of duty death. His sister Karen, 16, and brother Kurt, 14, were both in high school at Big Foot at the time, with Leedle calling his father’s unexpected passing “tough” for his family.