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A volunteer firefighter is among two people killed in two separate crashes on Route 15 in Lycoming County.

State police say the crashes happened within a half mile of each other in the area of Powys Curve, about two miles south of Trout Run.

Troopers tell Newswatch 16 that the first crash happened shortly before 4 p.m. Wednesday. They say a car headed north on Route 15 crossed the center line and hit a van coming south. The driver of the car died. The driver of the van was taken to the hospital.

The second wreck involved a volunteer firefighter headed to the scene of that crash. Troopers say he was thrown out of his pickup truck and killed. An officer with the Trout Run Volunteer Fire Company confirms that the man who died was a member of the company.

According to PennDOT, Route 15 south in Lycoming County was expected to reopen around 10 p.m.

UPDATE from "The Secret List";

As you know, yesterday afternoon a Firefighter from the Trout Run Fire Company (in PA) was killed in the Line of Duty. Firefighter Richard Springman, 20,  was responding in his personal vehicle to a very serious 2 car crash on Route 15, when he crashed. Firefighter Springman was ejected from his vehicle and died in the Line of Duty from injuries sustained in the accident.

Details are that he hit a guardrail and after hitting it, FF Springman over steered, causing his truck to travel sideways across both southbound lanes and up onto another  guardrail. After sliding on the guardrail, the truck rolled over before landing upright in the middle of the southbound lanes, about 300 yards north of the crash he was responding to. FF Springman, who was not wearing a seat belt, was ejected from the truck, landing about 15 feet from his vehicle.

Hepburn Township and Trout Run Firefighters were dispatched to the 2nd scene. However, within minutes after the second crash, all Trout Run Firefighters were taken off the assignment and directed to go to their firehouse on Route 14. Other EMS and fire companies were called to assist at the scenes. Our sincere condolences to all affected by the loss of FF Springman.

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