16-year-old firefighter in Missouri killed in line of duty

Missouri officials said a 16-year-old firefighter was killed successful the enactment of work portion responding to a telephone for work implicit the weekend.

Chevy Gall, a firefighter with the all-volunteer Beaufort-Leslie Fire Protection District, was progressive successful a centrifugal conveyance clang astatine astir 4:15 p.m. Saturday portion responding to a reported h2o rescue, according to the department. 

Gall, 16, "sustained captious injuries and was transported to Mercy Washington Hospital, wherever helium was pronounced deceased," the Beaufort-Leslie Fire Protection District said.

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Missouri firefighter Chevy Gall, 16, was killed successful the enactment of duty.  (Facebook/ Sullivan Fire Protection District)

"Tonight is simply a occurrence chief’s worst nightmare. We are heartbroken by the nonaccomplishment of 1 of our own," Beaufort-Leslie Fire Protection District Fire Chief Terry Feth said successful a statement. "Chevy died portion answering the telephone to assistance others. Our full section is grieving, arsenic we mourn with Chevy’s family, friends, and our chap archetypal responders during this incredibly hard time."

Gall was headed down Highway 50 eastbound of MO-185 erstwhile his conveyance crossed the halfway enactment and deed the beforehand of a cargo van, according to a clang study from the Missouri State Highway Patrol obtained by KSDK. 

The van's driver, identified arsenic a 30-year-old man, was transported to a infirmary wherever helium was treated for insignificant carnal injuries, the study said. The clang happened adjacent Beaufort, which has a colonisation of little than 2,000 people. 

The origin of the collision was not instantly known, but Franklin County Emergency Management Agency Director Abe Cook told KSDK that the clang happened during dense rainfall. 

Chevy Gall was remembered during a dignified transportation ceremonial connected Sunday. (Facebook/ Sullivan Fire Protection District)

The Beaufort country experienced respective flash flood warnings a time earlier amid terrible upwind conditions, but the h2o levels had subsided importantly by the clip of the crash, according to KSDK. 

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The Chief Mason Griffith Foundation announced Gall's decease connected societal media. 

"In a heartbreaking crook of events, helium became progressive successful a centrifugal conveyance mishap and, contempt the tireless efforts of aesculapian professionals, succumbed to his injuries successful the hospital," the nonprofit, which supports archetypal responders, said. "Chevy's passing leaves down his loving parents and 2 siblings, who are engulfed successful grief."

The Beaufort-Leslie Fire Protection District shared a photograph of the azygous of fallen firefighter Chevy Gall. (Beaufort-Leslie Fire Protection District)

The nonprofit said Gall's household was already mourning the nonaccomplishment of his uncle, aunt and cousins "who were killed successful a abstracted accident" astatine the clip of the young firefighter's death. 

"This unimaginable concern has formed a shadiness implicit our full community, reminding america of the tremendous sacrifices our archetypal responders marque each day," the instauration wrote, asking for donations for the family. 

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An American emblem was raised connected Sunday implicit the I-270 overpass, which aggregate agencies lined with exigency vehicles during the dignified transportation of Gall to Washington, Missouri.