Fire engineer Lester Hillis was responding to an automobile accident when the fire truck in which he was riding was hit by a car although the truck was using its lights and sirens. The fire truck overturned, and Hillis died from the injuries he sustained. It was the first fatality suffered by the Glendale Fire Department.
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