Off Duty VT Firefighter Struck and Killed While Rendering Aid

VERMONT FIREFIGHTER KILLED WHILE RENDERING AID Last night December 28, 2009, a Vermont Volunteer Firefighter was killed while helping at the scene of a car crash. There was heavy fog and the roads were icy when a car slid off the road into a ditch. Shoreham (VT) Volunteer Firefighter Peter Coe, 43, was driving with his family when he drove upon the crash, pulled over and got out of his car to help.

Then, the driver of an oncoming pickup truck, who didn't see FF Coe's car, tried to avoid hitting it, went off the road, hitting and killing FF Coe, and also hit a power line, a tree and the original car. What FF Coe did was what most any Firefighter would have done-no matter what the "duty" status. Information from news reports and Chief Billy Goldfeder a CVVFA Emergency Responder Safety Institute Member and Editor of the “Secret List”