CHARLEVOIX COUNTY, Mich,. (WPBN/WGTU) – – A firefighter at the Boyne Valley Fire Department is suspended as the Charlevoix County Sheriff’s Office investigates a fatal crash.
It happened Monday afternoon, December 15, in Boyne City, according to Fire Chief Darren Eaton.
The crash was on M-75 near Air Industrial Parkway Drive in front of the Tractor Supply Company.
The Boyne City Fire Department was called to the crash scene and used the jaws of life to get the person who died out of their vehicle.
Eaton said the firefighter was driving their personal vehicle to a call when another driver pulled out onto the road from a parking lot into the path of the firefighter’s vehicle.
