A fire truck and pickup truck collided and burst into flames on a Montana road Thursday, killing a fire chief and a family of five, officials said.
Three children are among the dead. The accident happened on Highway 12 at around 9 p.m. local time near Helena, when a fire engine driven by Three Forks Fire Chief Todd Rummel, traveling eastbound, collided with a pickup truck traveling westbound, NBC affiliate KTVM reported.
Both vehicles rolled into a ditch by the side of the road, caught fire and exploded,witnesses told the station.
A Helena couple and their three young children in the pickup truck were killed, officials said. Their names and ages weren’t released.
Rummel moved to Three Forks from Pennsylvania in 2006, and had been fire chief for a little more than a month before the accident claimed his life, the station reported.
State troopers are continuing to investigate what caused the crash.
Source: NBC News
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