While responding to a regular alarm at the Southern Welding Co., Firefighter Wagner was fatally injured when the fire truck (No. 3) he was responding on collided head-on with #7’s engine at the intersection of East Commerce and Water St. Engine #7 was traveling north on Water St. at a high rate of speed and Engine #3 was running west on Commerce when it plowed into #7’s. The impact was so forceful that Engine #3 overturned and landed on top of the other fire truck. A total of 10 firefighters were injured in this accident. An investigation revealed that the fire they were responding to had been extinguished well before any fire company arrived on scene. Firefighter Wagner was survived by his wife, two brothers, and three sisters. Firefighter Wagner was laid to rest at Roselawn Cemetery just two days before what would have been his 26^th birthday. 

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