March 28, 2023 West Firefighter Edward Hykel, 60, was injured in the fertilizer plant blast in 2013.
Source Firehouse.com News
A West firefighter was killed Tuesday afternoon while working traffic control at the site of a vehicle fire along I-35.
Edward Hykel, 60, was rushed to Baylor Scott and White Hospital where he died, according to KXXV.
The conditions of the injured troopers were not known.
Initial information from the Department of Public Safety indicated a semi-truck driver disregarded the traffic control devices that closed the lane crashed into a fire truck and two cruisers. Hykel was hit by one of the vehicles, KCEN reported.
Hykel, a volunteer in West for 16 years, was injured in the 2013 fertilizer plant explosion.