Hayward Honors Firefighter Travis Foster with Line of Duty Tribute

The Hayward Fire Department and the local community are remembering firefighter and paramedic Travis Foster following his death by suicide. Department leaders and union officials have formally recognized his passing as a line-of-duty loss to help raise awareness regarding the mental health pressures faced by frontline emergency responders.

Foster joined the Hayward department in 2018 after serving from 2011 to 2020 as an Air Force pararescueman, at times fulfilling his military and municipal duties simultaneously. Throughout his local career, he answered emergency calls across the city while serving on Engine 2, Engine 3, Engine 4, and Squad 2.

Hayward Firefighters Local 1909 organized community tributes praising Foster's commitment to public service and launched a support effort to assist his surviving wife and two children.