Sweden: Firefighter Struck and Killed
A firefighter has died after being hit along the E6. The fireman was hit in the rescue work after a truck accident. A firefighter has died in the rescue work after a truck accident at the Salt Source junction in Munkedal in Bohuslän. Fire man's relatives are advised of the death.
The first accident occurred shortly before 17:00 on Tuesday. For some reason ended up first a truck on the wrong side of the road at the entrance to the highway and turned the page. The accident happened in the southbound direction along the highway towards Uddevalla. During the rescue work after road accident became a firefighter hit.
According to the police kept the rescue a file open along the highway after the first accident. In connection with the accident stopped a truck to open the file from the rescue vehicle and the truck that had the weight itself. - Then comes a car at high speed and running between the truck that stopped and emergency vehicles. How wide it was between them, I do not know, but there is an emergency service worker who gets hit, says Patrik Ahlbom at police lednignscentral in the Western Region.
The police have been after the accident launched a preliminary investigation regarding reckless driving. We have launched a preliminary investigation of the rubric and seized a car, says Patrik Ahlbom.
The fireman was conducted after the accident in the ambulance to the Northern Älvsborg Hospital in Trollhättan. At 19 o'clock on Tuesday said Bernt Eriksson, head of rescue operations at Mid Bohusläns rescue league, to fire the man died. Relatives are informed its. This is terrible and we feel right now great sorrow, says Bernt Eriksson.
The accident was driving the car that ran on the firefighter also right into a rescue vehicle. According to Bernt Eriksson got the car driving at high speed and there was extensive damage to both the car and the fire truck after the collision. Firefighters from Uddevalla and Munkedal rescue stations working at the first accident avslöstes at 19 o'clock by other staff at the site.
The deceased firefighter colleagues now receive peer support and help from psychologists for help to process the tragic event.
We no longer firefighters killed in the fires, but traffic accidents. This is the third incident in the short, where it's been really bad in Sweden. We are out on the roads to help people and to save lives. It is terribly sad that people do not show respect for our work and do not hold the speeds at olyckplatser. It's about our work. This is terribly sad, says Bernt Eriksson.
Bernt Eriksson says that the deceased firefighters will be honored with a minute's silence on Wednesday.
- Our thoughts go naturally to the person's family receive support as colleagues who were at the site, says Bernt Eriksson.
During Tuesday night, several emergency services in Sweden sent their condolences after the death.
On Twitter, type the emergency services in the Greater Gothenburg that will flag at half mast at its stations in Gothenburg on Wednesday.
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