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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHoly fucking shit. WYFF anchor and photojournalist dead after tree falls on SUV
http://www.wyff4.com/article/wyff-news-4-anchor-photojournalist-tragically-killed-when-tree-falls-on-suv/20945002
POLK COUNTY, N.C.
WYFF News 4 anchor Mike McCormick and WYFF News 4 photojournalist Aaron Smeltzer died Monday when a tree fell on their SUV.
The accident happened on Highway 176 in Polk County while they were covering the impact of heavy rain in that area.
Video: Polk County authorities give update on accident
Tryon Fire Chief Geoffrey Tennant said the engine of the SUV was running and the transmission was in drive when authorities arrived at the scene about 2:30 p.m.
He said the tree that fell on the SUV was about 3 feet in diameter and had stood back off the road.
Tennant said the ground was saturated and the tree's root system failed.
"I have never seen an event like this one," Tennant, who has been in fire service in Polk County for 44 years, said.
POLK COUNTY, N.C.
WYFF News 4 anchor Mike McCormick and WYFF News 4 photojournalist Aaron Smeltzer died Monday when a tree fell on their SUV.
The accident happened on Highway 176 in Polk County while they were covering the impact of heavy rain in that area.
Video: Polk County authorities give update on accident
Tryon Fire Chief Geoffrey Tennant said the engine of the SUV was running and the transmission was in drive when authorities arrived at the scene about 2:30 p.m.
He said the tree that fell on the SUV was about 3 feet in diameter and had stood back off the road.
Tennant said the ground was saturated and the tree's root system failed.
"I have never seen an event like this one," Tennant, who has been in fire service in Polk County for 44 years, said.
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Holy fucking shit. WYFF anchor and photojournalist dead after tree falls on SUV (Original Post)
Dennis Donovan
May 2018
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benld74
(9,904 posts)1. I heard that on the news, terrible
Nay
(12,051 posts)2. Terrible, all right. But it's not as uncommon as this guy thinks. Earlier this year,
in the neighborhood next to ours, saturating rains made the ground so shaky that a tree fell on a 39-yr-old woman who was going to the car with her kid to take the kid to school. She was killed right in front of her child; the child was uninjured. So awful.
MissB
(15,805 posts)4. Similar thing happened in our neighborhood two years ago.
Sadly it was the opposite outcome.
Hassin Bin Sober
(26,324 posts)3. Yikes. Terrible.
murielm99
(30,730 posts)5. They send these newspeople out
to stand around in storms and get rain soaked and windblown. I have often thought that they are sending them into these situations unnecessarily. We know when it is storming out there.
I am sorry for their deaths. Maybe some of the news stations will rethink what they are doing.
Demovictory9
(32,445 posts)6. omg. horrible
Raine
(30,540 posts)7. Awful..
so sad