Roll of Honor
Jacqueline Montanaro
Incident
Location: New Jersey Incident Date: Friday, January 13, 2023
Supervisory Officer Jackie Montanaro died from injuries she sustained while trying to rescue her daughter from a fire in Hazlet, New Jersey.
When a fire broke out around midnight, Officer Montanaro evacuated from her burning home with her husband and eight-year-old daughter. She re-entered the home in an attempt to rescue their six-year-old daughter who was still inside. Officer Montanaro was found unconscious, trapped inside with trauma to her arms and hands. She was transported to Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center where she succumbed to her injuries at 1:40 am. Her six-year-old daughter did not survive the fire.
Officer Montanaro had served with the United States Department of Homeland Security - Customs and Border Protection - Office of Field Operations for 16 years and was assigned to the Newark Liberty International Airport.
Survivors
She is survived by her husband, daughter, parents, grandmother, sister, and two brothers.
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Tributes
I never knew you. I am standing here anyway.
Supervisory Officer Montanaro gave the United States Department of Homeland Security 16 years.
Thank you for your service. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Supervisory Officer Montanaro.
— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993
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Service Record
Incident Details
Supervisory Officer Jacqueline Montanaro is one of 10,088 officers lost to accidents in the line of duty across the full record of this memorial — 31% of all 32,508 officers honored here.
In DC, 454 of 1,419 officers were lost to accidents in the line of duty — 32% of this state's fallen. That is 1 percentage points above the national rate of 31%.
At United States Department of Homeland Security - Customs and Border Protection - Office of Field Operations, 5 of 39 officers on record were lost to accidents in the line of duty — 12.8% of this agency's fallen.
National Cause Distribution
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