IF YOU CAN HELP FIND HIM, CALL KCPD. CELEBRATING A LIFE OF SERVICE BY A BELOVED JOHNSON COUNTY, MISSOURI, FIRE CAPTAIN VERNON COLLETT WAS LAID TO REST TODAY. HE WAS KILLED LAST WEEKEND WHILE ...

A FIREFIGHTER HAS DIED WHILE ON THE SCENE OF A NATURAL COVER FIRE. CAPTAIN VERNON COLLETT COLLAPSED THIS AFTERNOON IN RURAL JOHNSON COUNTY. HE HAD SERVED WITH THE COUNTY’S FIRE PROTECTION ...

Vernon Collett, 60, died after collapsing while fighting a fire in rural Johnson County, Missouri on March 8. Courtesy of the Johnson County Fire Protection District A Johnson County, Missouri ...

District Captain Vernon Collett, 60, was part of the Johnson County Fire Protection District team responding to a fast-moving field fire in the 60 Block of NE MM Highway in rural Johnson County ...

Johnson County Missouri Fire Protection District (JCFPD) Captain Vernon Collett collapsed while on the scene of a half-acre grass fire Saturday afternoon in Warrensburg. Warrensburg is about 60 ...

Capt. Vernon Collett died at the scene of a half-acre field fire on a property near Knob Knoster, Missouri, around 3 p.m. Saturday. 'Shaken us to our core': Johnson County, Missouri, Fire ...

The Johnson County Fire Protection District has announced that Captain Vernon Collett has died in the line of duty. He collapsed while attempting to fight a natural cover fire on Saturday ...

Collett was the first to arrive at the scene of the brush fire off MM Highway in rural Johnson County on Saturday afternoon just before 2 p.m. KMBC Kansas City Posted: March 10, 2025 | Last ...

Johnson County Fire Protection District Captain Vernon Collett died in the line of duty while battling a natural cover fire on March 8, 2025. Captain Collett served out of the District’s Station ...

Capt. Vernon Collett, a lifelong resident of the county he served, was with the Johnson County Fire Protection District for more than 29 years at station No. 6 near Valley City. He was 60 years old.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — After Johnson County Fire Protection District Captain Vernon Collett died while fighting a fire in rural Johnson County, two more firefighters of the same district have been ...