This past monday night one of our members of Blades Volunteer Fire Company was admitted to the hospital with serious injuries the result of his truck with emergency lights being hit by a drunken driver. Our member who is a Fire Policeman just got out of his truck to set up traffic detour from the auto accident just ahead of him when he was hit.

Delaware has several new laws that are in effect. move over law, increased fines for dui, assault on emergency workers etc. There are increasingly close calls with drivers not slowing down, moving over, running fire signal lights. The driver spent the night in jail only to get out on minimal bail, our member will spend several days in the hospital and several months recovering. This was not that drivers first offense, the news reported other times, no license, no insurance.

PLEASE PASS THE WORD about this, please slow down, move over, give the right of way to emergency vehicles.

FTE has ability to spread the word very quickly, Thanks for taking the time to read......

dlr71