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Michael Ray Oldham
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Michael Ray Oldham

Birth
Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri, USA
Death
29 Nov 1988 (aged 32)
Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri, USA
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Actual burial here
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Shortly after they arrived on the scene at a highway construction site, six Kansas City firefighters died when two burning trailers loaded with several thousand pounds of a highly volatile ammonium nitrate/fuel oil mixture exploded. Along with Firefighter Oldham, Captain James Kilventon Jr., Captain Gerald Halloran and Firefighters Thomas Fry, Luther Hurd and Robert McKarnin also died in the blast. In July of 1997, a jury convicted five individuals of setting the fire that caused the explosion. All five were sentenced to life in prison.

His wife Karen; son Kyle and daughter Jacqueline. Kyle, who was 6 at the time of the incident is now a Kansas City Police Officer.
Actual burial here
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Shortly after they arrived on the scene at a highway construction site, six Kansas City firefighters died when two burning trailers loaded with several thousand pounds of a highly volatile ammonium nitrate/fuel oil mixture exploded. Along with Firefighter Oldham, Captain James Kilventon Jr., Captain Gerald Halloran and Firefighters Thomas Fry, Luther Hurd and Robert McKarnin also died in the blast. In July of 1997, a jury convicted five individuals of setting the fire that caused the explosion. All five were sentenced to life in prison.

His wife Karen; son Kyle and daughter Jacqueline. Kyle, who was 6 at the time of the incident is now a Kansas City Police Officer.

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