2 Wash. firefighters die when truck falls off bridge

Summary

The two Clark County firefighters were killed when the truck they were in jackknifed and fell off a bridge in Montana over the weekend.

Story Created: Dec 7, 2009 at 11:26 AM MDT

Story Updated: Dec 7, 2009 at 11:26 AM MDT

BUTTE, Mont. (AP) - The Montana Highway Patrol says two people were killed and one was seriously injured when a pickup truck pulling a trailer jackknifed and fell off a bridge.

Trooper Tammy Perkins says the Saturday morning crash killed 49-year-old driver Douglas Ray Jacobsen and his brother-in-law 45-year-old Richard Daniel Streissguth, both firefighters from Ridgefield, Wash. Another passenger, a 14-year-old boy, was critically injured.

Perkins says weather was a contributing factor to the crash, which happened when the Ford F-350 and trailer jackknifed and hit the guardrail.

She says the trailer pushed the truck off the bridge, which hung briefly before separating from the trailer and landing on its roof.

Clark County, Wash., fire officials say the men were on their way to Bozeman to pick up an antique fire engine.

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