Firefighter Charles S. Bouton, age 38, of the Fire Department City of New York died on August 2, 1978 in a roof collapse during a fire at a Waldbaum’s Supermarket in Brooklyn, New York.
He was assigned to Ladder Company 156 and appointed to the department on September 14, 1968.
Charles was known as a family man and idolized by the children in his Farmingville neighborhood.
His survived by his wife and 6 children.
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