WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) - The Wichita Fire Department on Thursday announced the death of a veteran firefighter who’d been with the department for 17 years. Wichita firefighter Joshua Bruggeman was 46 years old.

The WFD said he died Wednesday night, presumably from COVID-19 complications. The fire department said Bruggeman is survived by his wife and four daughters. WFD Chief Tammy Snow said Bruggeman was hospitalized Monday evening and tested positive for COVID-19. She said he last worked Dec. 14, but doesn’t know how long he’d battled the virus.

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Yeah, it’s another obituary of yet another person who refused to get vaccinated and paid with his life, but one of my coworkers lost their shit over this, because this is their nephew. And my coworker was one of those live and let live people, they’d get the shots and the booster, but they weren’t going to tell people how to live their lives. Now they are all “Get vaxxed! (I will delete and unfriend nasty.)” on their FB. I also don’t think this death was expected as COVID had swept through the family this month and they had told me that a sibling (not a nephew) was not doing well. From the news report, it sounds like this guy went downhill very fast.

And this is just one family. I suspect that some of my prolific cousins may have experienced loss but that side of the family doesn’t talk to me because I’m not a Trump worshiper.