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N.C. firefighter, 22, killed in vehicle crash

Cameron Hunt had served as a firefighter with the Fairmont Rural Volunteer Fire Department for approximately three years

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By FireRescue1 Staff

ROBESON COUNTY, N.C. — A volunteer firefighter was killed in a single-vehicle crash on Sunday.

Cameron Hunt, 22, was driving on N.C. Highway 130 when his vehicle ran off the road to the left, struck a ditch and then a tree, and was ejected from the vehicle, according to First Sgt. S.B. Lewis with North Carolina Highway Patrol. Lewis said Hunt was likely not wearing a seatbelt at the time of the crash, as reported by WPDE.

Hunt served as a firefighter with the Fairmont Rural Volunteer Fire Department, which posed about the department’s collective grief:

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WMBF News reported that Hunt had been with the fire department for approximately three years.

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