Quebec Firefighter Ejected, Killed in Crash While Responding

Feb. 28, 2003
A firefighter was killed early Friday morning when the fire truck he was travelling in collided with a sports utility vehicle.

A firefighter was killed early Friday morning when the fire truck he was travelling in collided with a sports utility vehicle

Serge Poirier was on his way to fight a major fire at a chicken farm in St-Albert-de-Warwick, Que. when the accident occurred.

The father of three was thrown through the windshield, and ended up pinned under the fire truck when it came to a halt.

The other firefighters of Victoriaville were following this first truck, and they were the first on the scene, and they are all in shock," says Daniel Lamirande of the S

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