Butch Henry, the manager of a local trucking company, was a seven-year volunteer with the Kingman Fire Department. He also was the son of a thirty-year veteran of the same Fire Department, and his nephew later became a career firefighter and Assistant Chief for that Fire Department. Eleven acclaimed firefighters, two members and nine volunteers of the Kingman Fire Department died as a result of a disastrous fire and explosion that ripped apart a railroad tanker car filled with propane gas as it was being off-loaded.