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DEADLY FIRE TRUCK CRASH INVESTIGATION CONTINUES

Authorities in southwestern Minnesota continue to investigate a deadly firetruck crash after the Lakeview High School homecoming events.  The Yellow Medicine County Sheriff’s Office says a Wood Lake fire truck flipped on its side Friday night near Cottonwood.   The report says a passenger – 43-year-old Steven Remiger of Wood Lake – was trapped under the truck and died at the scene.  37-year-old Andrew Vanhecke and a six-year-old boy were taken to a Sioux Falls hospital with life-threatening injuries.  State troopers say alcohol may have been involved.  The firetruck had been in the homecoming parade.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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