Volunteer who loved Hill Country town is killed in tanker wreck
By ASHER PRICE
Austin American-Statesman (Texas)
An award-winning volunteer firefighter from the Hill Country community of Briggs died early Sunday as he responded to a reported fire.
Chad Wessels, 31, was traveling east on RM 963 when he lost control of the 1,200-gallon water tanker he was driving about 1:30 a.m., according to the Department of Public Safety.
The tanker, a 1986 GMC flatbed truck, went off the road, struck a fence and some trees, and caught fire. Wessels was pronounced dead at the scene, about 15 miles northeast of Burnet.
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