By Glenn E. Rice
The Kansas City Star
FORT OSAGE, Mo. — A 47-year-old assistant Fort Osage fire chief died in a single-vehicle accident late Sunday while responding to a structure fire in rural Jackson County.
Harold Hollingsworth was driving to the fire scene during a severe thunderstorm at about 10 p.m. when his fire department SUV slid off the road near East Blue Mills Road and North Buckner Tarsney Road and hit a tree, said Todd Farley, an assistant fire chief with the Central Jackson County Fire Protection District.
Hollingsworth, a 16-year veteran with Fort Osage, was taken to Center Point Medical Center, where he died. The Missouri Highway Patrol is investigating.
This is the first time a Fort Osage firefighter has died in the line of duty, Farley said.
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