UNION COUNTY, Miss. — A Pinedale volunteer firefighter has died after suffering major head trauma in a fall from a fire truck during a grass fire.
Firefighter Terry Dykes fell from a fire truck on March 1 while assisting with a grass fire along County Road 60. He was transported to a hospital in Tupelo, where he died on March 3, WTVA reported.
Union County Emergency Management Director Curt Clayton confirmed the severity of Dykes’ injuries, stating that he suffered significant head trauma from the fall.
Mark Whiteside, representing the Mississippi Firefighter’s Association, noted that Dykes’ death marks the first recorded line-of-duty firefighter death in Union County history.
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