VIDEO: Three people, including two firefighters, are dead after a crash late Sunday night in eastern Arizona. Troopers with the Arizona Department of Public Safety (DPS) responded to the crash involving an ambulance and another vehicle around 10:15 p.m. on State Route 260 between Heber-Overgaard and Show Low. An initial investigation by DPS found that the passenger vehicle was driving westbound, crossed over the center line into the opposite lane and crashed head-on into a Timber Mesa Fire District ambulance.
โHead-on collision, extreme damage. And Iโve been on a lot of accidents over my career. And it was, it was horrific,โ said Timber Mesa Fire and Medical District Chief Randy Chevalier. Two firefighters were inside the ambulance at the time of the crash. Both firefighters, along with the other driver, were pronounced dead at the scene, a DPS spokesperson said.
Chief Chevalier says the firefighters were headed back to Show Low after dropping off a patient at a Valley facility for an interfacility transport when they were hit. The two firefighters have been identified as 31-year-old Brenna Kulikowski and 21-year-old Damon Thompson. Officials say Kulikowski had been with the department for three years, while Thompson was 15 days shy of finishing his first year.
