Captain Phillippe Bazinet was born in Tabaskaville, Canada. He joined the Lewiston Fire Department in 1900 and had been a Captain on Hose Company #4. He passed away in the line-of-duty at the age of 42 on December 24, 1909, when a wall collapsed at the Callahan Block fire at 274 Lisbon Street. Firefighter Thomas King was also killed in the collapse.