A Hill County firefighter has been killed on the job over the weekend.
Abbott Volunteer Fire Department firefighter Horace Dan Wright was struck by a fire truck while working the scene of a stranded driver on I-35. He died Friday night at the hospital.
The Abbott VFD experienced the line-of-duty death of Firefighter Dan Wright on 4/15/2023, the eve of the...
Posted by Texas Line of Duty Death Task Force on Sunday, April 16, 2023
Wright's death comes a little over two weeks after a firefighter from the West Volunteer Fire Department died under similar circumstances. Edward Hykel died when he was struck by a driver while working an I-35 accident.
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