GANDEEVILLE, W.Va. — The chief of a Roane County volunteer fire department and a fellow firefighter suffered minor injuries Tuesday morning when the fire engine they were in overturned on the way to a fire.
Gandeeville-Harmony VFD Chief Delmas Walker was driving the engine on Harmony Road when an oncoming car crowded him off the narrow road causing the engine to overturn. The wreck happened less than a mile from the fire hall. The road was wet and slippery.
The fire, which was about five miles from the accident scene, destroyed a house. There was no one at home at the time of the blaze.
The fire department has several vehicles but only one engine. Department officials aren’t sure if the engine will be declared a total loss. It’s believed to be worth more than $200,000.
Chief Walker and the other firefighter were treated at a hospital for a couple of hours and then sent home. A firefighter answering the phone at the fire hall told MetroNews the two should be okay.
It was a tough day for the Walker family, his daughter wrecked her car in Wirt County on the way to see her father. She also was not seriously injured.