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Teenage Firefighter Dies in Tanker Accident

A 17-year-old junior firefighter died of injuries sustained in a tanker accident while responding to a fire in Alabama.

The incident occurred when the tanker she was riding in went off a narrow, one-lane bridge. Two other firefighters in the tanker were critically injured.

For more information about this and other firefighter deaths in 2006, go to www.usfa.fema.gov/fatalities

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