It's believed the truck rolled when it was hit by extreme winds. 9News
"A brave firefighter has lost their life protecting the community east of Albury. Words fail at times like this," she said.
About 4pm the RFS issued an emergency warning for the Jingellic fire, telling residents it was too late to leave and to seek shelter as the fire approached.earlier this month when a tree fell into the path of their tanker.Geoffrey Keaton, 32, joined the NSW Rural Fire Service in 2006 and was the deputy captain of the Horsley Park Rural Fire Brigade in western Sydney and a former member of the Plumpton Brigade.
Geoff and his partner Jess have a son, Harvey, and Andrew has a daughter, Charlotte, with his partner Mel. Both children are 19 months old and were born within two days of each other. "They are at a loss," NSW RFS commissioner Shane Fitzsimmons said of the pair's families, speaking just five days before Christmas.
Geoff and Andrew were travelling in a truck convoy near the town of Buxton southwest of Sydney late on Thursday when a tree fell, causing the tanker to roll off the road.
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