Buckholts volunteer firefighter dies in rollover crash

MILAM COUNTY, Texas (KWTX) – A Buckholts volunteer firefighter is dead following a single-vehicle rollover crash, according to a statement by the Texas Department of Public Safety.

Firefighter Fuentes was pronounced dead at the scene by Justice of the Peace Greg Hoelscher.

According to a DPS investigation, the Buckholts Volunteer Fire Department truck was responding to a vehicle and grass fire in the 13000 block of Wood Road in Holland.

The fire truck left the roadway near the 7300 block of Farm to Market Road 437 and rolled over, the statement said.

Firefighter Fuentes sustained fatal injuries.

The crash remains under investigation and the scene is currently active, but next of kin have been notified.