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Kan. volunteer firefighter killed in off duty crash

Richard Hixon served with the Ensign Fire Department for about four years

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By FireRescue1 Staff

GRAY COUNTY, Kan. — A volunteer firefighter was killed in a two-vehicle crash Wednesday.

KWCH reported that Richard Hixon, with the Ensign Fire Department and Gray County Rural Fire, was off duty when the crash occurred.

Hixon served with the EFD for about four years and responded to several runs in Gray County.

“It’s nice to know that we now have an angel watching over us in Gray County,” Cimarron Fire Chief Rex Beemer wrote on a Facebook post. “Rest in peace my brother.”