People in West Union, Illinois, say they’re devastated to have lost two of their own in a weekend accident.
This includes an EMT who touched many lives.
Rick Poorman was helping a patient in the back on an ambulance that was struck by a pickup truck on Saturday night. The accident took place on Illinois Route 1 south of West Union.
The ambulance was en route to Union Hospital, and it did not have its lights and sirens on.
Poorman and Stephen Daugherty died in this crash.
Daugherty was a passenger in the pickup.
Poorman helped establish the West Union ambulance unit.
He trained many of the responders who answered the call to the crash that took his life.
A U.S. flag outside the West Union fire station flies at half-staff in his honor.
