There was no fire, no wreck or emergency, but instead a call to duty as firemen from all over East Texas took time out on Saturday to show respect to their fellow firefighter, Tri-Community Fire Chief Vandie Smith, Jr.
The services began shortly after 11:00 at the Springhill Baptist Church at Magnolia Springs for Chief Smith and ended and ended a short time later with full fireman honors at the nearby Springhill Cemetery.
Smith died on Friday July 2nd at the age of 64 following a long illness.
The most solemn moment came when an emergency dispatcher sounded a tone for the last time calling on Chief Vandy Anderson.
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Nelson, Wis., boy, 16, injured after falling asleep at wheel, rolling pickup
July 2, 2021 4:42 PM Site staff
Pickup came to rest in a cornfield after rolling. (Buffalo County Sheriff s Department photo)
TOWNSHIP OF BELVIDERE, Wis. (WKBT) A 16-year-old Nelson, Wis., boy was taken to a hospital Friday morning with non-life-threatening injuries after he fell asleep at the wheel on Hwy. 35 and the pickup he was driving rolled in the Belvidere Township, according to the Buffalo County Sheriff’s Department.
Deputies responded to a call to the scene shortly before 6 a.m. and discovered that the youth had lost control of the southbound 1992 GMC pickup, and it left the highway just south of County Road N and rolled before coming to rest in a cornfield, a sheriff’s department news release said.
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May 7, 2021 5:57 AM
Officials in Powell Co have identified the person found deceased after an apparent fall at the Red River Gorge earlier this week. Powell Co Search and Rescue said 24-year-old Gabriella “Gabby” Smith, of Alexandria, Ky., slipped and fell from a roughly 150-foot ledge while hiking alone near the Auxier Ridge trail area. Officials were alerted that Smith, a medical student at the University of Kentucky, might be in danger when she left for the hike Monday afternoon and did not return. Search and rescue members were able to ping Smith’s phone to get her last known location to get GPS coordinates before searching the Auxier Ridge area with the help of the Wolfe Co Search and Rescue Team and the Tri-Community Fire Department.