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Car Strikes Firefighters At Scene Of Fiery Accident
A passing pickup truck struck two Central Texas firefighters and a passerby who evidently stopped to help after a fiery motorcycle accident that claimed the life of a Fort Hood soldier early Saturday morning.
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(September 27, 2008)—A passing pickup truck struck two Nolanville firefighters and a passerby who evidently stopped to help after a fiery motorcycle accident on U.S. Highway 190 that claimed the life of a Fort Hood soldier early Saturday morning.
The firefighters and the unidentified passerby were in Scott & White Hospital in Temple late Saturday morning.
The fiery motorcycle crash happened around 3 a.m. on eastbound 190 near Nolanville Hill.
A Nolanville Fire Department spokesman said the motorcycle on which a Fort Hood soldier was riding slammed into the rear of a car and burst into flames.
The soldier was taken to Scott & White where he was later pronounced dead.
As emergency crews prepared to leave the accident scene, a passing pickup whose driver swerved to avoid another vehicle that had slowed down, struck a Nolanville fire truck, the two firefighters and the passerby.
One firefighter was airlifted to Scott & White and the other two victims were taken to Scott & White by ambulance.
The firefighters, who were identified as Andrew Gemmell and William Anderson, were treated at Scott & White Hospital and later released.
Information about the condition of the third victim wasn’t immediately available.
(Lon Curtis, Gus Elliott and Stephanie Franks contributed to this story)
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SPC B. The driver who hit the firefighters was NOT drunk. Get your facts straight. As for the rest of the naysayers and other people putting their own two cents in. If you weren't on scene, don't profess that you all know what happened, the circumstances surrounding it, or the aftermath. There are about 30 people who know the whole story from beginning to end. SSG Rod, you are not even close. SPC B, close, but still wrong.
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i know im in the soldiers brigade and i DO know what happened. the soldier left the bar and him and his buddy were on their motorcycles and the soldier that died decided he wanted to go 120 while he was already drunk, he murged off the highway and hit the back of a mustang, who was also driving drunk, then while the paramedics where out there, another drunk driver came and hit the paramedics! all this couldve been avoided if none of them were driving drunk! i know the story because my brigade csm and cdr let us know exactly what happened.
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SSG ROD......"HEROES" DON'T TRY TO KILL THEMSELVES ESPECIALLY WHEN THEY ARE OLD ENOUGH TO KNOW BETTER. THIS WAS A SENSELESS ACT OF ONE SOLDIER NOT WANTING TO DEPLOY AGAIN. I am not in the military but everybody in this area has some connection to the military and therefore some respect for the military. my father was in the military for 21 years. Right now my brother and sister in law are in iraq. i have the utmost respect for all soldiers, especially the ones that go to fight. i do not have respect for the ones that do not want to deploy and put other peoples lives at risk trying not to. you are right that this was another senseless act. the question you should ask yourself is who caused the senseless act. was it your soldier or the volunteer firefighters that were there doing everything they could to try and save his life? Maybe you should show a bit more respect for the people including the good samaritan. He had the same mission we did. save someone's life.
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