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The Associated Press
GRIFFIN, Ga. — A Georgia county is looking into whether any rules were violated after a firefighter took graphic cell phone video of a fatal crash that was shared with other firefighters, patrons at a bar and was later received by the father of the woman who died.
Jeff Kempson tells Atlanta station WAGA-TV he doesn’t understand why a firefighter would have taken the video of his daughter, 23-year-old Dayna Kempson-Schacht.
She died July 17 when her car crashed into trees.
The Spalding County Sheriff’s office says a firefighter took the video on his personal cell phone and shared it with other firefighters.
An unknown firefighter later took the video to a bar and texted it to other patrons.
From there, the video spread.