Ohio: Firefighters Struck on Ohio Turnpike

Just before 11:30 a.m. Wednesday, a Canfield fire truck and turnpike vehicle responded to a call for a vehicle into a guardrail on the Ohio Turnpike. “They had just arrived on the scene and just taken their seat belts off and then the impact happened,” Cardinal Joint Fire District Chief Don Hutchinson said. Hutchinson said crashes like the one on Wednesday are something they train for and always have in the back of their minds when responding to call on a major highway. An SUV that stopped behind the fire truck was slammed into by a pick-up towing a car hauler. The SUV burst into flames and its driver Karen Zorn, 27, of Maryland, died. Firefighters Brian Blevins and Troy Kolar had to climb through the windows of the truck to try and help the victims and put out the fire. Hutchison said his guys put their lives on the line each and every day on duty. “There is a possibility something bad can happen to them also, just like everything else, even out there trying to help