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Veteran Pa. firefighter dies responding to vehicle crash

Forty-year veteran Blaine “Skeeter” Wildnauer Jr. suffered a heart attack while assisting crash victims

KERSEY, Pa. — Fox Township (Pa.) Volunteer Fire Department firefighter Blaine “Skeeter” Wildnauer Jr. suffered a heart attack at the scene of a motor vehicle crash Saturday and later died at the hospital.

According to several reports, other firefighters on scene immediately went to Wildnauer’s aid and transported him to the hospital.

Wildnauer was a member of the volunteer fire department for 40 years and only its second line of duty death in its 75-year history.