NY Firefighter Badly Injured in Crash

Jared Thompson, a firefighter with a volunteer fire company in Fancher, was seriously injured in a crash Monday night while responding to a call.

Source Firehouse.com News

Nov. 13, 2018

A pickup truck sits mangled after a firefighter was seriously injured in a crash while responding to a call in Murray, NY, on Monday, Nov. 12, 2018.

A volunteer firefighter from a western New York community nestled along the southern shore of Lake Ontario suffered serious injuries in a crash while he was responding to a call.

WHAM reports that firefighter Jared Thompson with the Fancher Hulberton Murray Fire Company was traveling eastbound on Route 21 in Murray at around 5:40 p.m. Monday with his emergency lights activated when he rear-ended a truck.

Witnesses told state troopers that Murray had passed several other vehicles and appeared to not see the truck, which was turning off the road and toward a grain silo at the time of the crash.

The 27-year-old Thompson was flown by Mercy Flight helicopter to Strong Memorial Hospital with serious injuries after he was extricated from his pickup. He is currently listed in guarded condition.