He was on his way to a call in Kennetcook, where a home was destroyed by fire, but nobody was injured in the crash. Markitia Ettinger, treasurer of the Gore District Volunteer Fire Department and Jeff Ettinger's wife, said they feel lucky he wasn't badly hurt.
“My husband left as the lone person in our pumper-tanker to go for water shuttle and when he was on his route he hit a wall of fog and lost sight of the road and… he thought he was on one part of the road and felt the truck drop off the shoulder of the road,” she said. “The fog cleared, he realized where he was, went to correct the truck, the load shifted and there was nothing he could do.”
Markitia said the truck, a 1991 pumper-tanker, slid into the ditch until it struck a telephone poll, which was knocked down.