HEATHER CASEY
Firehouse.com News

Albert Leonel Voris, Jr. of the Combine, Texas Volunteer Fire Department was killed Friday while driving to the fire station in his personal vehicle. He was responding to a 10:10 p.m. page for a car fire, said Capt. Jack Miller.

Voris, 63, was a retired postal worker and had been with the department five years.

He was on his way to the station to get a fire engine when another vehicle drove over the center line and struck his vehicle, Miller said.

"A woman evidently went to sleep and crossed over the two-lane road," he said. "It was a pretty long straightaway, and at the last minute she swerved over. That's why he didn't have time to do anything."

Voris died at the scene of the accident. "It appears that he was probably within a half-mile of his house," Miller said.

The car fire he was responding to was handled with one engine. "It looks like arson, but that hasn't been determined yet," Miller said.

Voris is survived by his wife, four children, 12 grandchildren and one great-grand-child. He was an elder in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.

The memorial service was held Monday at 10 a.m. at Roselawn Funeral Home in Seagoville. The procession of apparatus was a mile and a half long, Miller said.