Responding to Firehouse
A PAID-ON-CALL FIREFIGHTER IN UPAHL, Germany, died early Satuday morning from a vehicle collision while responding to his firehouse. The alarm was dispatched at 2:30 am for a monitored alarm in a coffee roasting firm in an industrial park.
The firefighter who has not yet been publicly identified, was traveling in his personal car en route to the fire station when he met head-on with the fire engine that was responding to the alarm.
Feurwehr News
The crash killed the firefighter who was dead before he was extricated by another fire company. Two firefighters in the firetruck were injured and had to be transported.
photo: Ostsee-Zeitung / KES
There is no further information yet, but this report will be updated later when more is learned.
Update: It has been disclosed that the victim was 27 yrs. old.
Feuerwehr News has the early REPORT.
Thanks to Christian Lewalter of FWNetz
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