ENDEAVOR, Wis. — A 56-year-old volunteer firefighter was struck and killed by a motorist while working a crash scene in central Wisconsin Friday evening.
NBC15 reports that Larry Millard was airlifted to Portage Hospital and later to the University of Wisconsin Hospital in Madison, where he died. The firefighter served with the Endeavor-Moundville (Wis.) Volunteer Fire Department.
“Just the biggest heart you’d even see in a man,” Endeavor-Moundville Fire Chief Channing Boss told the station.
State police told the Associated Press that the crash happened around 4:30 p.m. on I-39 when the vehicle driven by a 54-year-old man entered the meridian and struck the firefighter. Fire crews were parked in the meridian attending to another crash; no charges have been filed against the driver.
Millard had volunteered for 34 years and leaves behind two daughters, five brothers and a sister.