The Marion Rural Fire Department is mourning the loss of a firefighter who died from injuries sustained in a Jan. 2. crash while returning from a call.
Amy Dimmery, 34, was the passenger in a Honda Civic that was being driven by her husband Freddie, also a firefighter.
The Honda Civic that was turning left off of U.S. 76 onto Schofield Road around 5:45 p.m., when it was struck by a Kia Soul, Highway Patrol LCpl. Matt Southern told television station WBTW.
Both occupants of the Civic were taken to the hospital where Amy died from head injuries, Marion County Coroner Jerry Richardson said.
Freddie sustained serious injuries and remains in McLeod Hospital, according to a release from the U.S. Fire Administration.
The Dimmery's has responded to a crash around 3 p.m. and were on their way home.
Amy had been a member of the fire department for just about a year.
“She loved helping people, she loved fire service, she was just getting into it really deep and it is just so heartbreaking she won’t be here to help people anymore,” firefighter Reagan Jackson told the television station.
Jackson called Amy a mother and a role model.
“She liked doing what she did even though it was volunteer, she put her whole heart into it so she really cared about whatever she did no matter what it was.
The driver of the Soul did not receive any injuries, according to the television station.
