SPENCER, W.Va. — A week after a Roane County volunteer lost his life in a fire truck wreck he was remembered by fellow firefighters from dozens of departments.
Funeral services were held Saturday for Mark Horwich, who died last Saturday when the Clover VFD truck he was driving left the highway and plunged into Little Sandy Creek near Newton. He was responding to a fire.
Horwich was also a member of the Spencer-Roane VFD.
Roane County Emergency Manager Melissa Gilbert told MetroNews earlier this week the death had struck a deep blow in her tight knit community.
“Mark was a fireman for two of our local fire departments so he had a lot of extended family because of that. Anytime a fireman is injured or dies in the line of duty, it touches every fireman across the state no matter which department you are with,” she said.
Horwich, who moved to West Virginia a few years ago from Nebraska. was buried in Looneyville.