NEWS
Firefighter killed in crash responding to fire
Duncan Cameron Henderson, 65, member of the Ringgold Volunteer Fire Department, was killed in a one-vehicle rollover accident on Crenshaw Road during the early morning hours of Wednesday when he was responding to a grass fire call.
Members of the Nocona Rural and Ringgold VFDs, along with Nocona EMS responded to the report of a crash at 1:20 a.m. Wednesday. Nocona Rural Chief Rusty Henley said they arrived on scene to find a single male occupant deceased in an apparent single-vehicle rollover crash in a personally owned vehicle.
Henderson was a member of the Ringgold VFD and it appears he had been responding to the fire station for a call just after 9 p.m. on Tuesday when the crash occurred.
The Department of Public Safety is investigating and reports the driver lost control on the dirt road due to high speed and rolled his 2003 Chevrolet pickup.
He was not located until four hours later. Henderson was pronounced dead at the scene. He also was wearing his seatbelt.
Rusty Henley of the Nocona Rural VFD this line of duty death is under investigation by the State Fire Marshal’s office.
Henderson has been a member of the Ringgold VFD for five years and served as assistant chief.
Arrangements are pending.
Members of the Bowie Independent School District Board of Trustees will meet at 5:30 p.m. on June 16.
The big item on the agenda is the review of superintendent candidate applications and consider possible interview choice. Superintendent Blake Enlow resigned on May 23 and Assistant Superintendent Lee Ann Farris has been serving as the interim.
That item will be in executive session along with professional educator contracts that need to be considered.
On the regular agenda Farris will update the board on education bills passed by the 89th Texas Legislature and their budget impacts, as well as discipline impacts. A budget workshop will be considered. She also will provide information on state assessment and board goals.
Campus administrators and directors will provide updates, along with the finance director.
In action items the board will review Texas Association of School Board update 124, consider changes to the 12-month and 11 employee dates and consider the purchase of a new band trailer not to exceed $80,000.
Due to the June 19 Juneteenth federal holiday the U.S. Post Office will be closed, which moves then Thursday Bowie News to a delivery date on Friday. It will be available in the stores at its regular time.
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