The assistant chief of the Eldorado Volunteer Fire Department was found dead at the fire station on Jan. 10, hours after a meeting. According to the U.S. Fire Administration, a firefighter found Assistant Fire Chief Rodney “Tiny” Menne, 53, at 2 a.m. deceased from an apparent heart attack. The USFA has provisionally listed the event as a line of duty death. According to his obituary, Menne had been a member of the Eldorado Volunteer Fire Department since 1989 and a past fire chief from 1996 to 2007 and in 2016 retired from the State of Wisconsin Department of Corrections Dodge Correctional as a Captain.