It is with deep regret that we advise you that Kingston fire officials have advised local media that an Assistant Chief of their department, who had been seriously injured while working on a ladder truck yesterday, has now died in the Line of Duty. Longtime Kingston Fire Department Assistant Chief Allan “Pickles” LePage, 67, a 42-year active member of the fire district, was identified as the member who died today after being injured Monday at the Bills Road station.

“It is with deep regret that Chief Nathan Barrington of the Kingston Fire District announces the untimely death of Assistant Chief Allan ‘Pickles’ LePage,” Deputy Chief Steven Pinch of the Union Fire District announced at a press conference this afternoon. “The identity of the firefighter was initially withheld as additional family members were contacted,” he said.

South Kingstown Police Department and Emergency Medical Services received the call at 2:37 p.m. Monday that a firefighter had been injured while working at the station. He was transported by South Kingstown Rescue to South County Hospital in Wakefield, where he was treated and then transferred by Air Ambulance to Rhode Island Hospital’s Trauma Center.

The accident is being investigated and re-constructed by the South Kingstown Police Department, the state Department of Labor and Public Safety Training Inc., a Connecticut company.

For funeral arrangements and in-depth coverage of the tragedy, see Thursday’s print edition.