Rest in Peace and thank you for your service to your community and country sir
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Amazing Grace - Irish bagpipes 
Updated: Upcoming Moore Family Fund raisers page has been updated at the Murrieta Fire association website. They have had some great events! with more to come.
The Matt Moore Family Pancake Breakfast fundraiser was a great success!
and they have scheduled more events such as blood drives, Easter egg hunts, Pizza nights etc.
Check it out here.
Photo: Murrieta Association President Mike Ramos with Matt’s
daughter Alyssa
A touching story of community service The Matt Moore story .PDF
For information on upcoming fundrasier events to benefit the Moore Family, please click here
Updated: A memorial service Celebrating Matt’s Life will be held in honor of Murrieta Fire Captain Matt Moore on Thursday, March 20, 2008 at 11:00 a.m. The Celebration will take place at Calvary Chapel Murrieta, located at 24225 Monroe Avenue. - Murrietta Firefighters association
Please click here to participate in an honor/color guard for Captain Moore's service.
In lieu of flowers, the Moore Family has suggested a donation to the Murrieta Fire Explorers, a program that Matt cherished.
Murrieta Fire Explorers
41825 Juniper St.
Murrieta, CA. 92562
The Murrieta Firefighters Association has set up an account for Matt's family. If you would like to donate, please send donations to:
Matt Moore Family Fund
Attn: Natalie Martinez - Wells Fargo Business Banking Specialist
41232 Murrieta Hot Springs Road
Please check the Murrieta Firefighters website for all official information updates
The body of Murrieta fire Capt. Matt Moore, who died in a San Diego hospital Monday after a months long battle with a rare infection from a parasitic amoeba, was returned to Riverside County on Wednesday, accompanied by a motorcade of fire engines and police vehicles.
Photo: PE.com
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Murrieta, CA. 92562
It is with regret that we advise you of the On-Duty Death of Fire Captain Matt Moore of the Murrieta, CA FD, Matt, a 17-year veteran of the Murrieta Fire Department has died.
Captain Moore had been ill since contracting an amoebic brain parasite late last year, suspected to be while operating at last years southern California wildland fires.
Captain Moore was surrounded by his family, including wife Sherry, children Alyssa, 16, Trent, 13 and Branden, 13, his parents Carol and Phil, brother Mark, also a Murrieta Fire Captain and countless friends and colleagues.
Captain Moore has been hospitalized since November, 2007 with an aggressive form of meningitis caused by an amoebic parasite known as Balamuthia mandrillaris. Balamuthia mandrillaris enters the body through the lower respiratory tract or through open wounds.
For the last six weeks, Captain Moore has been in the Intensive Care Unit at the University of California San Diego Medical Center.
Funeral arrangements update:
A memorial service Celebrating Matt’s Life will be held in honor of Murrieta Fire Captain Matt Moore on Thursday, March 20, 2008 at 11:00 a.m. The Celebration will take place at Calvary Chapel Murrieta, located at 24225 Monroe Avenue.
Google Map link
The Murrieta Firefighters Association has set up an account for Matt's family. If you would like to donate, please send donations to: For information on upcoming fundraiser events to benefit the Moore Family,
Updated: Upcoming Moore Family Fund raisers page has been updated at the Murrieta Fire association website. They have had some great events! with more to come.
The Matt Moore Family Pancake Breakfast fundraiser was a great success!
and they have scheduled more events such as blood drives, Easter egg hunts, Pizza nights etc.
Check it out here.
Photo: Murrieta Association President Mike Ramos with Matt’s
daughter Alyssa
For information on upcoming fundrasier events to benefit the Moore Family, please click here
Updated: A memorial service Celebrating Matt’s Life will be held in honor of Murrieta Fire Captain Matt Moore on Thursday, March 20, 2008 at 11:00 a.m. The Celebration will take place at Calvary Chapel Murrieta, located at 24225 Monroe Avenue. - Murrietta Firefighters association
Please click here to participate in an honor/color guard for Captain Moore's service.
In lieu of flowers, the Moore Family has suggested a donation to the Murrieta Fire Explorers, a program that Matt cherished.
Murrieta Fire Explorers
41825 Juniper St.
Murrieta, CA. 92562
The Murrieta Firefighters Association has set up an account for Matt's family. If you would like to donate, please send donations to:
Matt Moore Family Fund
Attn: Natalie Martinez - Wells Fargo Business Banking Specialist
41232 Murrieta Hot Springs Road
Please check the Murrieta Firefighters website for all official information updates
The body of Murrieta fire Capt. Matt Moore, who died in a San Diego hospital Monday after a months long battle with a rare infection from a parasitic amoeba, was returned to Riverside County on Wednesday, accompanied by a motorcade of fire engines and police vehicles.Photo: PE.com
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Murrieta, CA. 92562
It is with regret that we advise you of the On-Duty Death of Fire Captain Matt Moore of the Murrieta, CA FD, Matt, a 17-year veteran of the Murrieta Fire Department has died.Captain Moore had been ill since contracting an amoebic brain parasite late last year, suspected to be while operating at last years southern California wildland fires.
Captain Moore was surrounded by his family, including wife Sherry, children Alyssa, 16, Trent, 13 and Branden, 13, his parents Carol and Phil, brother Mark, also a Murrieta Fire Captain and countless friends and colleagues.
Captain Moore has been hospitalized since November, 2007 with an aggressive form of meningitis caused by an amoebic parasite known as Balamuthia mandrillaris. Balamuthia mandrillaris enters the body through the lower respiratory tract or through open wounds.
For the last six weeks, Captain Moore has been in the Intensive Care Unit at the University of California San Diego Medical Center.
Funeral arrangements update:
A memorial service Celebrating Matt’s Life will be held in honor of Murrieta Fire Captain Matt Moore on Thursday, March 20, 2008 at 11:00 a.m. The Celebration will take place at Calvary Chapel Murrieta, located at 24225 Monroe Avenue.
Google Map link
The Murrieta Firefighters Association has set up an account for Matt's family. If you would like to donate, please send donations to: Matt Moore Family Fund Attn: Natalie Martinez - Wells Fargo Business Banking Specialist 41232 Murrieta Hot Springs Road Murrieta, CA. 92562
Moore Family Fundraisers
For information on upcoming fundraiser events to benefit the Moore Family,
please click here.
Our sincere condolences to all affected...but especially the members of the Murrieta Fire Department and Captain Matt Moore's family and friends.
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Murrieta Firefighters Association
Information on the condition: Balamuthia mandrillaris
The amebas, which live in dust and soil and enter the body through inhalation, create lesions in the brain.
Murrieta Firefighters Association
Information on the condition: Balamuthia mandrillaris
Moore caught the amoeba in mid-November when he came down with sever flu symptoms.
A rare, incurable amoeba the doctors have little idea how to stop the amoeba, Balamuthia mandrillaris, because of its obscurity.
The amebas, which live in dust and soil and enter the body through inhalation, create lesions in the brain.
The amoeba
The Balamuthia mandrillaris ameba is a free-living pathogen, according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention Web site. This means it can survive with no living host.
It lives in soil and dust and is usually contracted by inhalation, making people who work in agriculture, construction or firefighting especially likely to be exposed.
Most humans are immune to the pathogen, according to the site. The majority of the ameba’s victims have been children or people with compromised immune systems.
Once in the body, the amoeba eats away at brain tissue, causing a condition called amebic encephalitis.
The earliest symptoms of the disease are chronic headaches and flu-like symptoms. As it sets in, victims grow lethargic until they slip into a coma.
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