(AP) -- COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - One firefighter has been killed and another injured after they were hit by a car while battling a blaze on Interstate 20 near Columbia.
Fire Chief Aubrey Jenkins said in a news release Sunday that Chance Hyatt Zobel was killed Saturday.
Jenkins said the injured firefighter Larry Irvin remained in critical condition at a local hospital.
Zobel and Irvin had been with the Columbia Fire Department since 2007.
According to information on the Highway Patrol's telephone message board, a van rear-ended a Chevrolet Impala and sent that car into fire trucks that were in the inside lane of the interstate and into the two firefighters who were working in the median.
No one has been charged in the crash and the Highway Patrol is still investigating.
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