Coal City Volunteer Firefighters buries one of its own.
Funeral (48 images)
Owen County, IN
A volunteer firefighter was killed in a crash Monday July 2 shortly after being asked to help with a field fire.
Dennise M. Leslie, 37, of Freedom was driving to the Coal City Volunteer Fire Department in a pickup truck when she swerved to avoid a collision with an oncoming vehicle on Stockton Road in Owen County,
Fire Marshal Roger Johnson said.
She lost control of her pickup truck, which rolled and struck a tree just west
of Rey Cemetery Road, the Owen County Sheriff's office said.
Leslie died at the crash scene, authorities said. Leslie was driving to the fire
department because she was called to help battle a filed fire off Egenolf
Road. The funeral was held on July 7th.
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