Assistant Chief of Police Larry Dean Duronso, Blaine Police Department, Washington

Assistant Chief of Police Larry Dean Duronso

Blaine Police Department, Washington

End of Watch Monday, September 4, 1978

Larry Dean Duronso

Assistant Chief of Police Larry Duronso and Reserve Officer Douglas Krenz were killed in an aircraft accident while searching for the body of a murder victim in Whatcom County.

Officer Krenz, a licensed pilot, was piloting the single engine plane when it experienced engine trouble and lost altitude several minutes after taking off from a field four miles west of Lynden. The plane crashed as Officer Krenz attempted an emergency landing.

Assistant Chief Duronso had served with the Blaine Police Department for seven years.

Bio

Age 32
Tour 7 years
Badge Not available

Incident Details

Cause Aircraft accident

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Its very touching reading all of your comments all of you have left behind over the years i was looking for info on larry dean duronso he is my grandfather, he died before i was born which was 1994 and growing up i never heard much about him nobody ever talked about him. Now that im an adult im curious to know everything about my grandpa i never got to meet. what he looks like, his personality, to know what made him such a great man, who was he.....as 1/4 of the blood running through my veins comes from him a part of me and who i am comes from him. So thank you eveybody for your kind words for my grandpa, a hero

jordan allen
grandson

February 24, 2016