A volunteer firefighter, who was on his way to an intervention, died on Saturday in a traffic accident in Aisne. The truck left the road and overturned, hitting a utility pole.

The other firefighters managed to “extract themselves from the accident vehicle, without serious injuries” but the deceased firefighter remained “incarcerated inside’ The accident took place on Saturday “early evening” in the town of Trélou-sur-Marne, said the Ministry of the Interior.